Barn at Hillside Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Workshop. 5 related planning applications.

Barn at Hillside Farm

WRENN ID
stubborn-facade-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
Country
England
Type
Workshop
Address
Barn at Hillside Farm, Hillside Lane, Great Amwell, SG12 9SH
OS grid reference
TL 372 120
Coordinates
51.79018, -0.01081
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn, now a workshop, dates to the 16th century. It is timber-framed with weatherboard cladding on a red brick sill wall, and has a gabled roof covered in old red tiles. The barn has four bays facing east. A doorway has been inserted into the second bay from the south. The structure incorporates heavy, jowled bay posts and long, curved braces supporting heavy, cambered tie beams. The stud wallframe is substantial, with rails tenoned in line. The roof is a clasped purlin design, featuring one purlin and straight wind braces. Several heavy, flat-laid rafters remain. Later additions include angled queen-struts with strainer plates between the collar of each truss. Straight-tension braces are visible in the corners to the sill plate. A lean-to addition exists at the rear (west), and an extension to the south, neither of which are considered of special architectural or historical interest.

Local climate

Barn at Hillside Farm 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 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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