Barn West of Old Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A C14 Barn.
Barn West of Old Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dim-wattle-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn West of Old Hall Farmhouse, School Road, Little Horkesley, CO6 4DL
- OS grid reference
- TL 959 319
- Coordinates
- 51.95155, 0.85003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn west of Old Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building located on Little Horkesley School Road. This seven-bay barn, originally built in the early 14th century, has undergone significant rebuilding. It features a timber frame with aisles on both sides, which were later raised to a two-storey height. The main posts are jowled, with passing shores in the aisles and reversed assembly at the original eaves. The structure includes well-curved bracing to the arcade plates and tie-beams, with a roof supported by collars, purlins, and curved in-pitch bracing. A long splayed scarf, dating from around 1350, is preserved in one aisle, along with a spur-tie and reversed assembly. The barn also contains a midstrey, which is centrally located on the north side and has been modernised.
Local climate
Barn West of Old Hall Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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