Barn Approximately 25 Metres North of Aylmers House is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. A C17 Barn.
Barn Approximately 25 Metres North of Aylmers House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-tallow-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 489 129
- Coordinates
- 51.79543, 0.15781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located approximately 25 metres north of Aylmers House, dates back to the early 17th century. It is timber framed and covered with weatherboarding, topped with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The structure consists of four bays arranged roughly in a northeast-southwest orientation, featuring an aisle on the northwest side and a midstrey in the second bay from the northeast. There are lean-to extensions on both sides of the midstrey and at the southwest end. The southeast elevation has four windows that were added in the 20th century. The roof is hipped at the southwest end and half-hipped at the northeast end.
Architectural details include jowled posts, straight tiebeams, and arched braces connecting the tiebeams to the arcade plate. Inside, there is heavy studding with straight braces across the upper angles of the walls, which are not trenched. The roof features queen struts with clasped purlins, and there is curved wind bracing to the purlin in just one bay, which contains the midstrey. This barn is contemporary with Aylmers House and shares similar construction features, particularly the unusual wall bracing. Although it was reported to be in poor condition around 1920, it has since been completely reclad while the frame remains unaltered.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 25 Metres North of Aylmers House 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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