North Barn at Whitehall Farm and Stable Adjoining at West is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Barn, stable.

North Barn at Whitehall Farm and Stable Adjoining at West

WRENN ID
other-hinge-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1988
Type
Barn, stable
OS grid reference
TL 169 234
Coordinates
51.89766, -0.30203
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The North Barn at Whitehall Farm and the adjoining stable to the west are a barn and stable structure. The barn dates from the 17th century, while the stable was built in the early 18th century. The barn features a timber frame set on a low brick sill, with dark weatherboarding and a steeply pitched roof now covered in slate. It is a tall, five-bay barn facing south, with jowled posts and a mid-height rail that is jointed in-line. The barn has curved braces supporting cambered tie-beams and a clasped-purlin roof, with one purlin on each slope carried by collar trusses with queen-struts. There are heavy straight tension braces in the middle bay on the south side, with a pitching door between them and a winnowing door below. The early 18th-century stable has six bays, with heavy cambered tie-beams and inclined queen-posts that support a single purlin on each slope.

Local climate

North Barn at Whitehall Farm and Stable Adjoining at West 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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