Porters Hall - Barn 40 Metres to North of House is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Barn.
Porters Hall - Barn 40 Metres to North of House
- WRENN ID
- odd-pier-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 677 237
- Coordinates
- 51.88702, 0.43633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Porters Hall is a 17th-century barn located 40 meters north of the house. This large barn features three hipped midstreys on the south side and is constructed with a timber frame, partially weatherboarded and partially plastered. It has a half hipped roof covered with red plain tiles and likely consists of 11 bays. The walls are supported by through bracing, jowled storey posts, and straight braces to the tie beams. The top plate has halved and bladed scarfs, and the roof is a double side purlin design, with later struts extending from the tie beams to the lower purlins. The barn is situated on a moated site.
Local climate
Porters Hall - Barn 40 Metres to North of House 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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