Barn at Alswick Hall 30 Meters to North West of Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. Barn. 1 related planning application.

Barn at Alswick Hall 30 Meters to North West of Hall

WRENN ID
still-joist-rush
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 Alswick Hall 30 Meters to North West of Hall, Hare Street Road, Buntingford, SG9 0AA
OS grid reference
TL 377 294
Coordinates
51.94658, 0.00216
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn at Alswick Hall, located 30 meters to the northwest of the hall, dates back to the 17th century. It has been altered to function as a stable block, featuring a new brick front and end walls added in the early 18th century, along with later lean-to additions at the eastern end. The structure is timber-framed, resting on a red brick sill, and is weatherboarded on the north side with some stepped painted brick infill at the lower parts. The south and east sides are finished in red brick with a chequered pattern using black headers, which has been painted over at the western end. The barn has a steep hipped roof covered in old red tiles.

This long building consists of approximately nine bays, with the seven western bays used as a barn and a wall separating the stable in the eastern part, which includes an inserted floor. A projecting hipped porch is located on the north side of the barn. The south side, which faces the hall, features paired vertical slits at two levels for ventilation, along with three groups of openings under segmental arches, including a wide door flanked by two windows, giving the appearance of stables. Hipped louvred dormers are present on the south roofslope.

Inside, the original roof structure consists of butt-purlins with one purlin for each slope, and the rafters are tenoned into the purlins. The roof also features collar and outswept queen-post trusses, with tie-beams supported by heavy jowled posts that have shaped chins. Straight wind braces are only found in the porch bay. There are mortices indicating the location of a former closed truss that once divided the barn into two parts.

Local climate

Barn at Alswick Hall 30 Meters to North West of Hall 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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