Gaylors Barn (40 Metres to South of Old Gaylors) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. A C18 Barn.
Gaylors Barn (40 Metres to South of Old Gaylors)
- WRENN ID
- idle-wicket-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1984
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 367 271
- Coordinates
- 51.92592, -0.01204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gaylor's Barn, located 40 meters south of Old Gaylors in Westmill village, is an early 18th-century barn with a roof dating from the early 19th century. It features a timber frame that is weatherboarded and sits on a low red brick sill, topped with a low-pitched slate roof. This barn is notable for its unusually wide span of approximately 9 meters and consists of 7 bays without aisles. It has double doorways located in the 3rd and 6th bays from the west and faces north into the farmyard. The structure includes 5 reused jowled posts, mid-height rails that are tennoned in line, and straight tension bracing. The deep curved braces support the tie beams. The early 19th-century roof structure features a single purlin on each slope, supported by short inclined queen-struts and further braced by straight braces from the tie-beam in the same plane as the struts. There is also a small curved collar between the principal rafters.
Local climate
Gaylors Barn (40 Metres to South of Old Gaylors) 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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