South Barn at the Old Farmhouse 5 Metres South of House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. Barn.
South Barn at the Old Farmhouse 5 Metres South of House
- WRENN ID
- rooted-turret-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 454 220
- Coordinates
- 51.87792, 0.11108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Barn at The Old Farmhouse, located 5 metres south of the house, is a barn dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is a tall, timber-framed structure that is weatherboarded and consists of four bays with aisles. The barn faces north and backs onto a moat. It features a steep gabled roof that is thatched, with red tiled valleys leading to a thatched gabled porch situated in the second bay from the east. The rear slope of the roof is now covered in corrugated iron.
The barn has a red brick base that extends in spur walls to support timber plates for the aisle posts. It includes shouldered jowled posts, curved braces connecting the tie beams and arcade plates, and the aisle tie beams do not connect to the jowled posts of the aisle walls. The roof has thin clasped purlins with curved wind braces and lap jointed collars. The arcade plate over the entrance is scarfed with a face halved and bladed scarf, while the wall plates feature edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts. This barn is part of a group of buildings surrounding The Old Farmhouse.
Local climate
South Barn at the Old Farmhouse 5 Metres South of House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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