Barn About 20 Yards West of Number 6 is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. Barn.
Barn About 20 Yards West of Number 6
- WRENN ID
- stony-crypt-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SP 923 114
- Coordinates
- 51.79396, -0.66305
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 16th-century rectorial tithe barn located about 20 yards west of Number 6 on Parsonage Place. The barn features a timber frame set on a chamfered red brick sill and is covered in dark weatherboarding with a steeply pitched roof that has been slated. It consists of six tall bays and is accessed through the south gable. The structure includes jowled posts and unjowled posts at the mid-bay, with deep, slightly curved double braces connecting the posts to the tie-beam. Each slope has two clasped purlins, both supported by straight or slightly curved wind braces that form a narrow angle with the principal. A long lower collar with queen-struts below the purlin supports queen-struts to the upper collar. Strainer beams have been inserted between the upper purlins at mid-span. The wallplates feature edge-halved scarf joints, each secured with a long face-peg. This barn is unique in the area for its use of double braces to the tie-beam.
Local climate
Barn About 20 Yards West of Number 6 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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