Symonds Butchers Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Barn.
Symonds Butchers Barns
- WRENN ID
- ruined-plaster-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Symonds Butchers Barns, Cage End, Hatfield Broad Oak
- OS grid reference
- TL 545 163
- Coordinates
- 51.82483, 0.24153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Symonds Butchers Barns are a pair of barns that have been converted for light industrial use. They date from the 14th and 16th centuries and are constructed with a timber frame, featuring black boarding and a gabled peg tile roof. The buildings form an 'L' shaped complex, which includes a former two-storey granary that has remnants of diamond mullioned windows on the road side. The east side of the granary is partly made of red brick, which continues on the northern side. The main barn consists of seven bays, with aisles on both sides and two large midstreys that have jettied gables on the west side. It incorporates reused 14th-century components, including large jowled posts, a simple crown post roof with longitudinal bracing, and mortices indicating the presence of a former first floor. This barn is likely a former monastic granary that was relocated from a priory site following the Dissolution.
Local climate
Symonds Butchers Barns 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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