Granary at Westbury Farm, Immediately East of Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Granary.
Granary at Westbury Farm, Immediately East of Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- long-keystone-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Granary
- Address
- Granary at Westbury Farm, Immediately East of Farmhouse, West End, Ashwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 262 395
- Coordinates
- 52.03955, -0.16031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The granary at Westbury Farm, located immediately east of the farmhouse, dates from the mid-17th century. It features a timber frame construction with a gabled front, a painted brick ground floor, and a weatherboarded upper floor. The side elevations display exposed studwork with red brick infill. The building has two storeys above a cellar, with the front wall showcasing two arched cellar openings. It is topped with a steeply pitched plain tile roof that has a wavy-edged bargeboard. There is a plank door on each floor.
Local climate
Granary at Westbury Farm, Immediately East of Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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