Barn East of Fordham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. Barn.
Barn East of Fordham Hall
- WRENN ID
- inner-postern-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1952
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn East of Fordham Hall, Church Road, CO6 3NL
- OS grid reference
- TL 927 280
- Coordinates
- 51.9175, 0.80143
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn east of Fordham Hall, dating from around 1800, is a large, lightly framed structure that is 10 bays long. It features side girthed construction and incorporates older posts and timbers. The barn has tie beams supported by hanging-knees, roof side purlins, and numerous lapped collars. There are two midstreys, both gabled and facing west. The walls are primarily wind braced above and below the girts, and the barn retains its great doors. The roof is ridged and gabled, covered with peg tiles, while the walls are finished with black weatherboarding. Additionally, there is a full-length lean-to on the west side, built with English bonded red brick.
Local climate
Barn East of Fordham Hall 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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