West Barn at Nine Ashes Farm 65 Metres North West of House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Barn.
West Barn at Nine Ashes Farm 65 Metres North West of House
- WRENN ID
- frozen-niche-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- West Barn at Nine Ashes Farm 65 Metres North West of House, SG12 8PL
- OS grid reference
- TL 416 132
- Coordinates
- 51.8, 0.05312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Barn at Nine Ashes Farm, located 65 metres northwest of the house, is a barn dating from the late 16th century, likely built for Sir Thomas Forster. This barn features five bays and is a single-aisled structure with a gabled porch that projects from the centre of the south side. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, standing on a low brick plinth. The roof is steeply pitched, covered with old red tiles, and is half-hipped at the west end while gabled at the east end, where it connects to the East Barn.
The aisle roof was raised in the 18th century, but much of the original structure remains intact. The barn has square jowled posts with long curved braces supporting the arcade plate and tie beams. There is tension bracing in the walls above the mid-rails, which are tennoned in line. The spur walls and sills support the arcade posts. A long down brace from a post is halved over the aisle tie beam and extends down to a jowled post in the aisle wall. The roof features slender inclined queen struts and collar trusses with clasped purlins and curved paired wind braces. The front wall plate and rear arcade plate have face-halved bladed scarf joints. This barn is an important example of a 16th-century structure with an unusual form for the area and is part of a picturesque farm group, representing one of several surviving late 16th-century buildings.
Local climate
West Barn at Nine Ashes Farm 65 Metres North West of House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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