South Barn at Marlin Chapel Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1986. Barn.
South Barn at Marlin Chapel Farm
- WRENN ID
- plain-merlon-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- South Barn at Marlin Chapel Farm, Northchurch
- OS grid reference
- SP 964 071
- Coordinates
- 51.75453, -0.60473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Barn at Marlin Chapel Farm is an early 17th-century barn constructed with a timber frame on a brick plinth. It is covered in dark weatherboarding and features a steep red tiled roof. The barn has three tall bays facing south, with double doors located in the middle bay and a wide winnowing door at the rear. The bay-posts have stepped jowls, while the mid-bay posts are unjowled, and there is a half-height rail staggered between the posts. Long straight braces support the tie-beams. Each slope of the roof has two purlins; the upper purlin is clasped by a collar and principal, while the lower is butt jointed in a staggered line. Heavy inclined struts are present at the lower angles of the trusses, and straight wind-braces are attached to the upper purlins. The front wallplate features a squint-butted scarf joint. The farmhouse on the property is not of special interest.
Local climate
South Barn at Marlin Chapel 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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