Olde Barn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. A C17 House, former agricultural building. 1 related planning application.

Olde Barn Cottage

WRENN ID
inner-merlon-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tendring
Constituency
Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1972
Type
House, former agricultural building
Address
Olde Barn Cottage, Hall Lane, Harwich, CO12 3TD
OS grid reference
TM 244 305
Coordinates
51.92778, 1.26359
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Olde Barn Cottage is a house that was originally an agricultural building, dating from the 17th century. It features English-bond brickwork, with signs of former timber-framing that has been encased. The gables are covered in white painted weatherboarding, and the gambrel roof is made of clay plain tiles. The building has one storey and attics, with 19th or early 20th century casement windows that include transoms. There is a central entrance door on the south elevation, along with a central square ridgeline stack. Lean-to extensions are present on the north and west sides. The entrance elevation displays four later buttresses and shows evidence of raised brickwork. Inside, there is a three-bay softwood timber-frame structure with an 'A'-frame roof, featuring inverted knees that are forelock bolted to bridging joists and principal posts.

Local climate

Olde Barn Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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