Barn at Hormead Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. Barn.

Barn at Hormead Hall

WRENN ID
under-foundation-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1984
Type
Barn
Address
Barn at Hormead Hall, Hall Lane
OS grid reference
TL 404 304
Coordinates
51.95481, 0.04269
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn at Hormead Hall is an early 17th-century structure. It features a timber frame set on a red brick sill in English bond and is covered with dark weatherboarding and a steep thatched roof. The barn has a tall five-bay design facing south, with a central rear outshut opposite the double doors and a small door to the right. It includes jowled posts with long straight braces connecting to the tie beams and the central rear outshut. The roof is a clasped-purlin type with raking queen-struts and thin rafters. The door posts and lintel extend above the eaves, supported by a swept roof and ovolo-shaped brackets at the heads of the doorposts. Additionally, there is a face-halved bladed scarf joint in the rear wallplate.

Local climate

Barn at Hormead Hall 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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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