Cattles Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1981. Barn.

Cattles Barn

WRENN ID
lost-jamb-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 1981
Type
Barn
Address
Cattles Barn, Chappel Road, Fordham
OS grid reference
TL 923 293
Coordinates
51.92919, 0.7957
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cattles Barn is a 17th-century barn constructed with a timber frame set on a tall red brick plinth. It features a south-facing hipped midstrey. The roofs are covered with corrugated asbestos, and the walls are clad in black weatherboarding.

Local climate

Cattles Barn 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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