Two Adjacent Barns at Roe End Farm (45 Metres to South West of House) is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. Barn.

Two Adjacent Barns at Roe End Farm (45 Metres to South West of House)

WRENN ID
sharp-nave-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1987
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 047 157
Coordinates
51.83072, -0.48176
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Two adjacent barns at Roe End Farm, located 45 meters to the southwest of the house, include a west barn from the late 16th century and an east barn from the early 17th century. Both barns have timber frames resting on low brick sills, are dark weatherboarded, and feature steeply pitched roofs now covered in green painted corrugated iron.

The west barn is taller and consists of four bays, with a gabled porch on the south side in the second bay from the east. It has jowled bay-posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, a staggered mid-height rail, long straight braces to cambered tie-beams, and inclined straight queen-posts supporting a single clasped-purlin on each slope. The wallplate features an edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts.

The east barn also has four bays and includes double doors on the north side in the second bay from the east, along with a gabled projection at the rear of the same bay. It has jowled bay-posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, an in-line mid-height rail, straight braces to the wallplate, long straight braces to cambered tie-beams, and slender inclined straight queen-posts carrying a single clasped-purlin on each slope, with straight wind-braces at the gable ends.

There is a separate framed wall originally against the west barn, featuring a collar-and-queen-strut truss and mortices for wall studs beneath the tie-beam. The barns are significant features in the landscape and contribute to the overall character of the farmstead group.

Local climate

Two Adjacent Barns at Roe End Farm (45 Metres to South West of House) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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