Farm Buildings Next the Road at Friends Green Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. Farm buildings. 3 related planning applications.
Farm Buildings Next the Road at Friends Green Farm
- WRENN ID
- south-lintel-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- Farm buildings
- Address
- Farm Buildings Next the Road at Friends Green Farm, Weston, SG4 7BU
- OS grid reference
- TL 259 286
- Coordinates
- 51.9417, -0.16922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farm buildings at Friends Green Farm date from the 17th century and include 19th-century flanking structures. They feature a timber frame on black masonry bases and are covered in dark weatherboarding. The barn in the middle has a steep corrugated aluminium roof, while the stable to the south has a tiled roof and the shed to the north has a slated roof. The tall barn has three bays and faces east, with a double doorway in the middle bay. It has jowled posts, long curved braces supporting cambered tie-beams, and purlins that are clasped by collars. At the north end, there is a narrower two-bay open-fronted shed facing east, and at the south end, there is a small stable with two stable doors on the east side.
Local climate
Farm Buildings Next the Road at Friends Green 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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