Barn at Little Meadow is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. Barn. 4 related planning applications.
Barn at Little Meadow
- WRENN ID
- inner-quoin-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Little Meadow, Hormead Dane, SG9 0NT
- OS grid reference
- TL 402 300
- Coordinates
- 51.95144, 0.03976
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Little Meadow is a 17th-century structure located in Great Hormead. It features a timber frame set on a tarred offset brick plinth, with a roughcast exterior and a dark weatherboarded apron. The barn has a steep half-hipped roof that is currently covered in corrugated iron, although it was originally thatched. This tall barn has five bays and faces west, with its south gable being a notable feature in the street. There is a central bay rear outshot opposite the central double doors. The barn includes jowled posts and long curved braces supporting the tie-beams, along with a clasped-purlin roof that has thin rafters designed for thatch. Additionally, there is a mid-height rail staggered with straight tension braces both above and below, and the wall plates are connected with face-halved bladed scarf joints.
Local climate
Barn at Little Meadow 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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