West Barn at Sawtrees Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Barn. 1 related planning application.
West Barn at Sawtrees Farm
- WRENN ID
- rough-transept-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- West Barn at Sawtrees Farm, Cold Christmas Lane, Thundridge, SG12 7SL
- OS grid reference
- TL 387 179
- Coordinates
- 51.84281, 0.0125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Barn at Sawtrees Farm is an 18th-century barn constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarded exterior, topped with an old red tile roof. It features five bays and faces west, with a central gabled porch on the west side and double doors on the east side leading to the yard. The barn has unjowled peats, arched braces supporting the tie-beams, mid-height rails that are tenoned in line, and a clasped purlin roof with angled Queen-struts.
Local climate
West Barn at Sawtrees 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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