West Barn at Balls Pond Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Barn. 1 related planning application.
West Barn at Balls Pond Farm
- WRENN ID
- far-string-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- West Barn at Balls Pond Farm, Chipperfield Road, Kings Langley, WD4 9JB
- OS grid reference
- TL 059 024
- Coordinates
- 51.71115, -0.46788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A 17th-century barn is situated at Balls Pond Farm on the south side of Chipperfield Road, Kings Langley. It is a tall, five-bay barn with a timber frame, dark weatherboarding, and a steeply pitched red tile roof. A gabled projecting porch is located in the middle bay, facing east. The barn features jowled posts with long straight braces to cambered tie-beams, angled queen strut trusses without collars, and one butt purlin on each slope, staggered in adjoining bays. Face halved bladed scarf joints are visible where the wallplates meet the posts. It is similar in design to a barn at Langley Lodge Farm to the south.
Local climate
West Barn at Balls Pond Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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