North Barn at Hammond's Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Barn.
North Barn at Hammond's Farm
- WRENN ID
- deep-spandrel-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- North Barn at Hammond's Farm, Burge End Lane, Pirton
- OS grid reference
- TL 144 323
- Coordinates
- 51.97773, -0.33514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The North Barn at Hammond's Farm is a 16th-century barn located on Burge End Lane in Pirton. It features a timber frame set on a tarred brick sill and is covered with dark weatherboarding and a steeply pitched roof, which is now made of corrugated iron. The barn has five tall bays and faces south, with double doors located in the middle bay on the south side. There is a lean-to outshut on the north side of the same bay. The structure includes jowled posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, and a mid-height rail that is jointed in-line. It has straight tension braces and a central post at each gable with straight tension braces as well. Long straight braces connect to the tie-beams, and the roof is a clasped-purlin design with collars and long straight inclined queen-struts in the trusses. The front wall incorporates re-used timbers that lack jowls, and the north wallplate features an edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts.
Local climate
North Barn at Hammond's Farm 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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