Range of 2 Barns Approximately 60 Metres South South East of High Laver Grange Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Barn.
Range of 2 Barns Approximately 60 Metres South South East of High Laver Grange Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rusted-stair-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 528 092
- Coordinates
- 51.7612, 0.21387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a range of two barns located approximately 60 meters south-southeast of High Laver Grange Farmhouse, dating from the 17th to 18th centuries. The barns are timber framed, covered with weatherboarding, and roofed with corrugated iron.
The first barn consists of five bays and is aligned roughly north-south, featuring an aisle only on the west side and a midstrey to the east. It has jowled posts, straight tiebeams, and arched braces connecting to the tiebeams and the arcade plate. The structure includes primary straight bracing and heavy studding, with vertical queen struts and clasped purlins, which have additional clasping collars at half-bay intervals. The arcade plate and wallplate feature bladed scarfs. The original west door has been blocked with corrugated iron. The east doorway retains carved grotesque brackets, each depicting a female figure with cloven hooves, which are tenoned and pegged into the angles between the jambs and lintel, original to the structure and showing traces of original red paint. The grotesque to the north of the doorway has been damaged to accommodate a later knee. Outside the brackets, rough 'spandrels' of weatherboarding suggest that the lean-to midstrey was added after the original barn was completed. The style of the brackets is comparable to those found at George Bootes House in Felsted, dated 1596, indicating that this barn was likely constructed between 1600 and 1640.
The second barn, also five bays, extends to the north of the first barn and does not have an aisle. It features a midstrey to the east and double doors to the west. The posts are now jowled, with arched braces to the straight tiebeams and primary straight bracing. It has inclined queen struts to the principal rafters and clasped purlins with arched wind bracing, dating from the late 17th to early 18th century. The barns are listed for their group value.
Local climate
Range of 2 Barns Approximately 60 Metres South South East of High Laver Grange 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 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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