Barn 40 Metres to North of Orford House is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1982. Barn.
Barn 40 Metres to North of Orford House
- WRENN ID
- silver-rubblework-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1982
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 514 271
- Coordinates
- 51.92222, 0.20155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn located 40 metres north of Orford House dates from the 17th or 18th century. It is timber framed, weatherboarded, and features a clay tile roof with a gabled design. The structure consists of a 7-bay range that includes a gabled midstrey and a lean-to roofed midstrey on the north side. The western three bays have aisles on the north, and there is a noticeable drop in the ridge line to the eastern bay, which has a wide casement window in its gabled elevation.
Local climate
Barn 40 Metres to North of Orford House 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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