2 Barns Adjoining on North Side at Offley Holes Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Barn. 1 related planning application.
2 Barns Adjoining on North Side at Offley Holes Farm
- WRENN ID
- ruined-lintel-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- 2 Barns Adjoining on North Side at Offley Holes Farm, SG4 7TD
- OS grid reference
- TL 167 263
- Coordinates
- 51.92368, -0.30353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two barns located on the north side of the farmyard at Offley Holes Farm, both dating from the 17th century. The western barn has a roof that was altered in the early 19th century. Both barns feature timber frames set on brick sills and are clad in dark weatherboarding. The western barn has a steep old red tile roof, while the eastern barn's roof has been replaced with corrugated sheeting.
The eastern barn is five bays tall and includes a central gabled projection to the north, with double doors facing the yard to the south in the same bay. It has jowled posts, long convex curved tension braces to the sill, and long straight braces to the cambered tie-beams. The roof is a clasped-purlin design, with one purlin on each slope trapped between the principal and the notched end of the convex curved inclined queen-posts. The wallplate over each post features face-halved bladed scarf joints.
The western barn has four bays and includes a projecting porch on the south side in the second bay from the east. The western end bay is of slightly later construction. It has heavy jowled posts, straight braces to the straight tie-beams, and straight tension braces in the walls. The roof is a side purlin design.
Local climate
2 Barns Adjoining on North Side at Offley Holes Farm 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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