Barn at Readings is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. A C19 Barn.
Barn at Readings
- WRENN ID
- second-mortar-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Readings, High Ongar
- OS grid reference
- TL 605 042
- Coordinates
- 51.71442, 0.32236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Readings is an early 19th-century structure built of red brick with white brick dressings and topped with a corrugated iron roof. It features a gabled midstrey on the north side and has semi-circular louvred wind eyes in the gable ends. The north side includes vented pegs and two late 19th-century windows, one of which is now blocked.
Local climate
Barn at Readings sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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