Double Barn at Marchants Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. A C17 Barn. 3 related planning applications.
Double Barn at Marchants Farm
- WRENN ID
- lunar-grate-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Double Barn at Marchants Farm, Ley Hill Road, Bovingdon, HP3 0NJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 999 025
- Coordinates
- 51.71298, -0.55498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The double barn at Marchants Farm is an early 17th-century structure. It features a timber frame set on a tarred red brick sill and is covered with dark weatherboarding and steep old red tile roofs. The barn is tall and faces south, consisting of three bays on each side, with a partition in the middle. Each half has a gabled porch that projects from the middle bay, with a winnowing door opposite each porch. The barn has heavy jowled posts with long straight braces supporting cambered tie-beams. The long bays include unjowled central posts, with a similar central post in the partition. The roof is a clasped-purlin design supported by angled queen-posts.
Local climate
Double Barn at Marchants Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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