Barn and Stable Attached at Number 9 (Forge Farm) is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. A C18 Barn, stable.
Barn and Stable Attached at Number 9 (Forge Farm)
- WRENN ID
- first-threshold-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1987
- Type
- Barn, stable
- Address
- Barn and Stable Attached at Number 9 (Forge Farm), Nettleden with Potten End
- OS grid reference
- TL 020 104
- Coordinates
- 51.78339, -0.52158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building consists of a barn and stable attached to Number 9, known as Forge Farm. The barn dates from the 17th century, while the stable was built in the 18th century. The western gable of the barn is made of 20th-century brick. The structure features timber frames resting on low red brick sills, with dark weatherboarding and steep roofs covered in old red tiles. The barn is tall with one and a half bays, facing north, and was originally larger, extending further to the west and connected to the house by a forge. The stable, which has two bays, joins the eastern bay of the barn at an angle on the north side.
Architecturally, the barn includes jowled bay-posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, and a mid-height rail that is tenoned in line. It has a clasped-purlin roof with a single purlin on each slope, and curved inclined queen-posts in an open truss without a collar, while the eastern gable truss features a collar and struts. There are straight braces connecting the tie-beams and wall-plates. The stable has split doors at both the front and back, located near the junction with the barn, and a three-light lattice leaded casement window in the north gable, which is protected by a later extension that is not of special interest. The stable exhibits primitive carpentry, utilizing natural S-curved braces for the wall plates, unjowled posts, and a side-purlin roof supported by a segmental curved member that is scarfed in the middle and curves upward from the wall plate to support the undersides of the two purlins.
Local climate
Barn and Stable Attached at Number 9 (Forge 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 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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