Aisled Cattleshed at Briggens Home Farm 50 Metres North North West of House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Cattleshed.
Aisled Cattleshed at Briggens Home Farm 50 Metres North North West of House
- WRENN ID
- ragged-groin-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cattleshed
- OS grid reference
- TL 411 115
- Coordinates
- 51.78456, 0.0452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The aisled cattleshed at Briggens Home Farm, built in the late 19th century, is a large square building made of grey brick. It features a wide entrance in the gable facing south and has a low-pitched gabled roof that is now covered with corrugated asbestos. The structure has vertical boarding with an arched, decorated lower edge over the entrance. Inside, it consists of a 6-bay timber framework with an open nave and wide aisles, each bay containing a 2-light window. The arcade posts have rebates designed to hold rails that can close off each bay. There is a central circular window in the north gable above larger, possibly modern, windows. The roof structure includes a wide span king post with inclined struts supporting the purlin of the aisle roof. This unusual and spacious cattleshed has seen little alteration and is of particular interest as it represents the late 19th-century shift in farming practices in the area, focusing on fattening cattle in enclosed yards with open-fronted sheds for shelter. The integration of covered yards and shelter sheds into a single building is exemplified here. This structure is part of the historic farm group at Briggens Home Farm.
Local climate
Aisled Cattleshed at Briggens Home Farm 50 Metres North North West of House 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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