East Range of Farm Buildings at Graveley Hall Farm Backing Onto Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1974. Farm buildings. 2 related planning applications.
East Range of Farm Buildings at Graveley Hall Farm Backing Onto Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- odd-pinnacle-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1974
- Type
- Farm buildings
- Address
- East Range of Farm Buildings at Graveley Hall Farm Backing Onto Churchyard, Church Lane, SG4 7LY
- OS grid reference
- TL 234 280
- Coordinates
- 51.93759, -0.20502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The east range of farm buildings at Graveley Hall Farm, which backs onto the churchyard, includes the remains of a former jettied domestic building at the northern end. The buildings date from the 16th century to the 19th century. The northern shed is from the 19th century, while the former domestic building, now a stable, dates from the 17th century and consists of three bays. There is also a five-bay tithe barn from the 16th century. The structure features a timber frame on a tarred brick sill, with dark weatherboarding. The western wall of each stable is made of painted brick, and the southern gable wall is constructed of red brick. The roofs are steeply pitched, covered with old red tiles, although the barn, which was formerly thatched, is now slated.
The northern stable has a central door and originates from a two-bay, two-storey domestic structure that jetties at the north end facing the hall. This building has jowled posts, convex curved tension braces, paired tension braces flanking a blocked window at the north end, a single purlin with curved wind-braces, and holes for wattle-and-daub infill. The three-bay lower stable to the south now connects with the northern stable. The five-bay barn at the southern end features central double doors facing west. It also has jowled posts, a mid-height rail, convex curved tension braces, curved braces to cambered tie-beams, and one purlin on the collar with inclined straight queen struts. The wall plates exhibit edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts.
Local climate
East Range of Farm Buildings at Graveley Hall Farm Backing Onto Churchyard sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% 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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