Barn Immediately West of Number 2 (Pursley Farm House) is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. Barn. 1 related planning application.
Barn Immediately West of Number 2 (Pursley Farm House)
- WRENN ID
- silent-hearth-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1985
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn Immediately West of Number 2 (Pursley Farm House), London Road, Shenley, WD7 9EN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 194 999
- Coordinates
- 51.68591, -0.27359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located immediately west of Number 2, Pursley Farm House, dating from the 18th century. It has a timber frame and is covered with weatherboarding, topped by a tiled roof. The barn consists of five bays, with added aisles and a central gabled threshing bay facing the yard. There are doors and windows that open towards the yard, and a low gabled extension is present at the gable end closest to the house. Inside, the barn features tenoned purlins, collar beams, and queen struts supporting the principals, along with braced straight tie beams. The walling on the northeast side includes studding and curved tension braces.
Local climate
Barn Immediately West of Number 2 (Pursley Farm House) 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 1 application
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- 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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