Barn at Blounts Farm 30 Metres West of House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. Barn.
Barn at Blounts Farm 30 Metres West of House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-storey-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 456 179
- Coordinates
- 51.84123, 0.1134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 16th-century barn located 30 metres west of Blounts Farmhouse. It has a tall, five-bay structure facing east, featuring a central projecting porch. The barn is constructed with a timber frame and is weatherboarded, topped with a steeply pitched roof that is half-hipped at the ends. Originally thatched, the roof is now covered in black-painted corrugated iron.
The barn has double doors in the central bay on the west side, opposite the doors in the porch. It showcases fine carpentry, with chamfered arrises on the main members and heavy stepped jowls on each post. The walls include tension braces, and there are long curved braces connecting to the tie beams. Each roof slope has a single butt-purlin supported by heavy trusses and long curved queen struts, but lacks a collar. Long curved wind braces support the purlins, and there are heavy knee braces around the west doorway.
During the war, the building was used by the Airforce, who added brickwork to the lower parts of the walls and installed two large dormers in the west roof slope.
Local climate
Barn at Blounts Farm 30 Metres West of House 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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