South Barn at Meesdenbury Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. Barn.
South Barn at Meesdenbury Farm
- WRENN ID
- far-floor-barley
- 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
- OS grid reference
- TL 439 328
- Coordinates
- 51.97571, 0.09491
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Barn at Meesdenbury Farm is a 17th-century barn constructed with a timber frame resting on a red brick sill. It is finished with dark weatherboarding and features a steep quarter-hipped roof, which is currently covered in corrugated iron. The barn has a tall, five-bay design and faces north, with swept-roofed double doors located in the middle. The structure includes jowled posts that are supported by long curved braces connecting to the tie-beams and arcade plates. The sills extend across the aisles to support the arcade posts, although the aisle posts do not have jowls. Inside, the roof is a clasped purlin type with collar trusses, and the arcade plates are joined using face-halved bladed scarf joints.
Local climate
South Barn at Meesdenbury Farm 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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