East Barn at Town Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Barn. 1 related planning application.
East Barn at Town Farm
- WRENN ID
- open-shingle-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- East Barn at Town Farm, Stocks Road, Aldbury, HP23 5RU
- OS grid reference
- SP 965 125
- Coordinates
- 51.80297, -0.60093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The East Barn at Town Farm is a 18th-century barn located on the east side of the yard. It features a timber frame set on a high red brick sill and is covered with dark weatherboarding and a steep old red tile roof. The barn has five tall bays and faces west. It includes unjowled posts with straight braces connecting to squared tie-beams, and inclined straight struts supporting the principals. There are two butt-purlins on each slope, staggered in alignment. Long diagonal braces are fixed to the undersides of the rafters in the end bays, and a central post is present in the end walls, with long diagonal braces intersecting the wall studs. The barn has single wide doors on each side leading into the end bays, as well as two high pitching doors, although the central doorways are blocked.
Local climate
East Barn at Town Farm 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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