Barn Approximately 25 Metres North of Housham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Barn.
Barn Approximately 25 Metres North of Housham Hall
- WRENN ID
- idle-courtyard-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 503 119
- Coordinates
- 51.78586, 0.17878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This 17th-century barn is located approximately 25 metres north of Housham Hall. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The barn has five bays that are aligned northeast to southwest, with a midstrey on the southeast side, although the doors are blocked. There are lean-to extensions on both sides of the midstrey. The main roof is half-hipped at both ends, and the midstrey also features a half-hipped roof, with catslide roofs over the lean-to extensions. The structure includes jowled posts, arched braces supporting straight tiebeams, a queen strut roof, and clasped purlins without wind braces. There are primary straight braces in the walls.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 25 Metres North of Housham Hall 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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