Barn West of Skins Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Harlow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1981. Barn.
Barn West of Skins Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- frozen-cobalt-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harlow
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1981
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn West of Skins Farmhouse, Roydon Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 420 101
- Coordinates
- 51.77218, 0.05769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn west of Skins Farmhouse is a 17th-century structure. It features five bays and is constructed with a timber frame that is covered in black weatherboarding. The roof is ridged and fly-hipped, clad in red pantiles, with one hipped midstrey facing east. The barn stands on red brick footings laid in Flemish bond, which include some blue headers. Inside, the barn has a heavy oak frame that is arch-braced, with collars and side-purlins.
Local climate
Barn West of Skins Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings