Hay Barn at Frenches Farm (To East of South East Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. A C16 Barn. 1 related planning application.
Hay Barn at Frenches Farm (To East of South East Barn
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Hay Barn at Frenches Farm (To East of South East Barn, Tower Hill, Chipperfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 038 022
- Coordinates
- 51.70897, -0.49875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hay Barn at Frenches Farm is a 16th-century barn that was relocated from closer to the road in the 20th century. It features a timber frame set on a red brick sill and is covered with dark weatherboarding and a steep old red tile roof. The barn has three tall bays and faces west, with double doors on opposite sides of the middle bay. It includes jowled posts made from large scantling, with long curved braces supporting cambered tie-beams. The roof is constructed with queen-strut and collar trusses, featuring clasped purlins and very wide flat rafters. The walls have alternating wide and narrow studs, with a deep mid-height rail that is tenoned in-line. There are slots for wind braces, although these are now absent.
Local climate
Hay Barn at Frenches Farm (To East of South East Barn 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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