Barn Approximately 20 Metres South West of Secondlodge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. Barn.

Barn Approximately 20 Metres South West of Secondlodge Farmhouse

WRENN ID
gilded-gallery-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1985
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 121 400
Coordinates
52.04777, -0.36582
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 17th-century threshing barn located approximately 20 metres southwest of Secondlodge Farmhouse. It features a timber-framed construction set on an ironstone plinth and is weatherboarded with a corrugated asbestos roof. The barn has a seven-bay plan and a double queen strut roof. The north elevation includes a cart entrance in the central bay, which aligns with a lean-to porch on the south elevation.

Local climate

Barn Approximately 20 Metres South West of Secondlodge Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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