Entrance Barn at Water Lane Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Barn.
Entrance Barn at Water Lane Farm
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-portal-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Entrance Barn at Water Lane Farm, Bovingdon
- OS grid reference
- TL 015 025
- Coordinates
- 51.71224, -0.53179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Entrance Barn at Water Lane Farm is a 16th-century barn that has been converted into a gatehouse. It features a timber frame resting on a brick sill, with dark weatherboarding and steep old red tile roofs. The barn is a tall structure with four bays, located along the roadside. On the eastern side, there is a gabled projecting porch in the second bay from the south, which now serves as a covered carriageway providing access to the yard. The barn includes jowled posts, a clasped purlin roof supported by straight wind braces and straight braces to the tie-beams, as well as angled queen-post trusses without collars.
Local climate
Entrance Barn at Water Lane 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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