Barn at Lordship Farm (30 Metres to West of New House) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1984. Barn.

Barn at Lordship Farm (30 Metres to West of New House)

WRENN ID
white-plaster-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1984
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 290 238
Coordinates
51.89803, -0.12609
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn located at Lordship Farm, built in the 16th century and extended in the 17th century, with alterations to the roof in the 19th century. The barn features a timber frame set on a low brick plinth, covered in dark weatherboarding and topped with a steep red tile roof. It was originally a five-bay structure with a central gabled porch facing south and was extended by two bays to the west in the 17th century.

The barn has very large square posts with jowled heads, connected by mid-height rails that are tennoned in-line, and features arched braces in each bay. There are long curved braces supporting the tie beams. The roof structure consists of side purlins and textbook king-post trusses, all constructed with pegs. The lower parts of the walls are plastered internally.

In the older part of the barn, there are edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts at mid-span, while the two added bays have face-halved bladed scarf joints, less massive posts, and straight braces. There are double doors on the south side leading to the porch and the second bay from the west, with a later outshot at the rear corresponding to this doorway. The rear wallplate of the older section has mortices for a three-light diamond mullioned window, which likely has a shutter-groove on the soffit and may be a reused feature. The barn was known as Slipe Farm until recently.

Local climate

Barn at Lordship Farm (30 Metres to West of New House) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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