Aisled Barn at Thorley Hall 60 Metres North of House is a Grade II* listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. Barn.
Aisled Barn at Thorley Hall 60 Metres North of House
- WRENN ID
- deep-buttress-wax
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 476 189
- Coordinates
- 51.84927, 0.14241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Aisled Barn at Thorley Hall, located 60 metres north of the house, is a barn dating from the 16th century or possibly earlier. It features a long, 9-bay timber-framed structure that is weatherboarded and has a steeply pitched roof. The roof is half-hipped, with tiles that were replaced by dark metal sheeting around 1945. On the east side, there are projecting gabled porches in the third bay from each end. The barn has modern double doors at the north end and in the west wall of the aisle next to the southwest corner.
Inside, there are heavy square arcade posts set on raised brick bases. These posts are inclined inward and gradually thicken to a jowled head. Curved braces connect the tie beams to the arcade plate, and the aisle tie-beams are dovetail notched onto the arcade posts. The nave is supported by clasped purlin queen-post trusses, each with one purlin on each slope, along with curved wind braces and flat laid rafters. This late medieval barn is of significant interest due to its aisled construction and large size.
Local climate
Aisled Barn at Thorley Hall 60 Metres North 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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