Barn to West of Cants Garden Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Barn.

Barn to West of Cants Garden Centre

WRENN ID
sleeping-turret-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1982
Type
Barn
Address
Barn to West of Cants Garden Centre, London Road, Stanway
OS grid reference
TL 937 242
Coordinates
51.88348, 0.81365
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a late 17th century, three-bay barn located to the west of Cants Garden Centre on London Road in Stanway. The barn is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a corrugated asbestos roof. It features a gabled midstrey on the east side and has a side purlin roof with hanging knees supporting the tie beams.

Local climate

Barn to West of Cants Garden Centre sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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