Barn Range at Westmill Bury Farm (100 Metres to North of the Bury) is a Grade II* listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. A Early Modern Barn.

Barn Range at Westmill Bury Farm (100 Metres to North of the Bury)

WRENN ID
half-wattle-lark
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1951
Type
Barn
Period
Early Modern
OS grid reference
TL 370 271
Coordinates
51.9262, -0.00761
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn range at Westmill Bury Farm, located 100 meters north of The Bury in Westmill village, dates from the 16th or early 17th century, with roof alterations made in the early 20th century. It features a timber frame set on a low red brick sill and is covered in dark weatherboarding. The west gable end is infilled with red brick that has a grey diaper pattern. The west arm has a red pantile roof, while the south arm is roofed in corrugated asbestos, featuring a steep pitch at the north end and a gambrel roof at the south. There is also a shorter north arm.

This T-shaped range consists of aisled barns with eight bays in both the west and south arms, and an unaisled short north arm. It has tall aisle-posts with ogee moulding at the base of the jowls, and curved braces connecting the arcade-plates and tie beams, as well as between the jowled bay posts in the aisle-walls and the aisle tie-beams. The roof structure is a clasped purlin type, with single purlins and trusses featuring collars and inclined struts at the angles. The original steep roof is preserved in two bays at the north end of the south arm. The west arm has had its aisle walls heightened, and a lower pitched roof has been constructed above the tie beams. The southern part of the south range retains steep roofs over the aisles, but the roof has been rebuilt to a much lower pitch over the nave, resulting in a gambrel roof form. Face-halved bladed scarf joints are used in the arcade plates above each post. This barn range is noted for its unusual extent and design.

Local climate

Barn Range at Westmill Bury Farm (100 Metres to North of the Bury) 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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