Central Barn at Church Farm, 50 Metres to East of Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1978. Barn.
Central Barn at Church Farm, 50 Metres to East of Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- weathered-gateway-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1978
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Central Barn at Church Farm, 50 Metres to East of Farmhouse, HP1 3BY
- OS grid reference
- TL 028 112
- Coordinates
- 51.79015, -0.50959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Central Barn at Church Farm, located 50 meters east of the farmhouse in Great Gaddesden, is an early 17th-century barn. It features a timber frame set on a red brick sill wall, with dark weatherboarding and a steep old red tile roof. The barn is tall and consists of five bays, facing west, and includes a gabled projecting porch in the middle bay. The site slopes from north to south. It has jowled posts with unjowled mid-bay posts, and a mid-height rail that is jointed in-line. The barn's structure includes curved braces supporting cambered tie-beams, and a clasped-purlin roof with queen-strut trusses, diminished straight principals, and straight wind-braces on each slope. Wind-braces are present only at the gable ends and in the middle bay. Additionally, squint-butted scarf joints can be found in the wallplates and in each purlin next to the truss.
Local climate
Central Barn at Church Farm, 50 Metres to East of Farmhouse 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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