Barn at Shire Lane Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Barn. 2 related planning applications.
Barn at Shire Lane Farm
- WRENN ID
- little-quartz-thrush
- 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
- Barn at Shire Lane Farm, Tring, HP23 6NA
- OS grid reference
- SP 930 077
- Coordinates
- 51.76032, -0.65287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Shire Lane Farm is a 16th-century structure featuring a timber frame built on a brick sill, with dark weatherboarding and a steep old red tile roof. This tall barn has three bays and faces west, with double doors located in the middle bay. To the left of the doors is a lean-to stable, constructed with similar materials and featuring a stable door on the west side.
Architectural details include jowled posts, a mid-height rail that is tenoned in-line, and straight tension braces at the corners. Each bay has long curved braces connecting the posts to the wallplate, and there is an unjowled post at the center of each gable. The roof is a clasped purlin design, with one purlin on each slope, collar and queen-strut trusses, and straight wind-braces. The north gable features double curved braces, while the south gable has long curved braces. The wallplate includes squint-butted scarf joints with one edge peg.
Local climate
Barn at Shire Lane Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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 — 2 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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