Barn and Farmbuildings Adjacent (At Entrance to Village) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1983. Barn, farm building.

Barn and Farmbuildings Adjacent (At Entrance to Village)

WRENN ID
shadowed-loft-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1983
Type
Barn, farm building
Address
Barn and Farmbuildings Adjacent (At Entrance to Village), Paper Mill Lane, Standon
OS grid reference
TL 395 222
Coordinates
51.881, 0.02599
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn and two adjacent farm buildings located at the entrance to the village of Standon, dating from the late 18th century. The barn is timber-framed and weatherboarded, resting on a red brick sill laid in English bond, topped with a steep slate roof. The lower buildings, constructed in the 19th century, are also timber-framed and weatherboarded, featuring slate roofs. A red brick wall with dark diaper decoration forms the rear wall of the southern range along the roadside.

The barn is a tall, four-bay structure with a low gabled porch on the west side, positioned in the second bay from the north. It has double doors on the east side of the same bay, along with a small door in the porch. The barn features unjowled posts with bolted knee-braces and mid-height rails that are tennoned in line. Its queen-strut clasped-purlin roof lacks collars.

This barn is a significant feature in the distant views of the church and village from the south and west, and the decorative wall serves as an enclosure at the entrance to the village along Paper Mill Lane. It was formerly associated with the farmhouse now known as Nos 66 and 68 High Street.

Local climate

Barn and Farmbuildings Adjacent (At Entrance to Village) 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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