Old Whitehouse Barn 30 metres south west of house adjacent to road is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. A C17 Barn.
Old Whitehouse Barn 30 metres south west of house adjacent to road
- WRENN ID
- vast-storey-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 658 229
- Coordinates
- 51.88033, 0.40792
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Whitehouse Barn, located 30 metres south west of the house and adjacent to the road, is a barn constructed in two phases, dating from the mid 17th century and late 18th century. It features a timber frame with a gambrel roof, which is clad in slate and pantiles, and has half hips on both the left and right sides. The late 18th century section includes a half hipped midstrey on the west side, while the 17th century section has half hipped jettied midstreys on both the east and west sides. There is a pantiled cartlodge situated between the midstreys. The 18th century build has a ridge board side purlin roof with double collars, whereas the 17th century build features a side purlin roof with canted braces to the collars and halved and bladed scarfs.
Local climate
Old Whitehouse Barn 30 metres south west of house adjacent to road 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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