The Barn Next Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. Barn.
The Barn Next Home Farm
- WRENN ID
- scattered-iron-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- The Barn Next Home Farm, Meesden
- OS grid reference
- TL 429 324
- Coordinates
- 51.97175, 0.07953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Barn Next Home Farm is a barn that has been converted into a house. It dates from the early 17th century and was transformed into a residence in the 1980s. The building features a timber frame resting on a brick sill laid in English bond, and it is clad in dark weatherboarding beneath a steep hipped thatch roof. Originally, the barn faced south and had a projecting porch in the middle; it now faces north as a single-storey house while retaining the barn's structure above the normal height ceiling. The barn consists of a three-bay structure with jowled posts, long curved braces, and a clasped-purlin roof supported by inclined queen-struts. It also includes cambered tie-beams, a face-halved bladed scarf in the wall plate, and straight tension braces in the end walls.
Local climate
The Barn Next Home Farm 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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