North Barn at Lower at Lower Farm 35 Metres North of House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. Barn.
North Barn at Lower at Lower Farm 35 Metres North of House
- WRENN ID
- keen-gateway-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 452 210
- Coordinates
- 51.86889, 0.10779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The North Barn at Lower Farm, located 35 metres north of the house, is a 17th-century barn. It features a tall five-bay timber frame and a steep half-hipped thatched roof oriented east-west. The barn has weatherboarding on the gable and lower part of the walls, with plaster above. There is a plastered half-hipped thatched porch projection on the south side, which is now blocked. In the middle bay, there are double doors opposite the porch. The north wall is weatherboarded and has a corrugated iron apron. The posts have heavy swept jowls, and there are long braces to the tie beams. The roof has slender scantlings with a clasped purlin design, collar, and queen struts. A modern shelter shed that is of no historic interest abuts the north side of the barn.
Local climate
North Barn at Lower at Lower Farm 35 Metres North of House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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