South Barn at Bridges Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1984. Barn.
South Barn at Bridges Farm
- WRENN ID
- tangled-postern-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1984
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- South Barn at Bridges Farm, Walkern
- OS grid reference
- TL 309 246
- Coordinates
- 51.90484, -0.09783
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Barn at Bridges Farm is an early 18th-century barn. It features a timber frame set on a red brick sill and is weatherboarded with a steep half-hipped roof that has been slated. The barn has three bays and includes a gabled porch on the south side, with double doors located on both the north and south sides. The structure has unjowled posts with straight braces connecting to the tie-beams. Inside, there is a clasped purlin roof supported by collars and raking queen-struts.
Local climate
South Barn at Bridges Farm 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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