Barn 20 Metres to East of Old Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. A C17 Barn.
Barn 20 Metres to East of Old Farm House
- WRENN ID
- stark-gallery-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 154 280
- Coordinates
- 51.93874, -0.32204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century barn located 20 meters to the east of the Old Farm House in Offley. The barn features a timber frame set on a red brick sill, with part of the frame exposed at the front and infilled with red brick. The exterior is generally covered with dark weatherboarding, and it has a steeply pitched roof that is now slated. The barn is tall and consists of six bays, facing south, with a gabled porch located at the second bay from each end. It includes jowled posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, and a mid-height rail that is jointed in-line, along with tension braces in each bay. The roof is a clasped-purlin type, with two purlins on each slope; the upper purlins rest on high collars, while the lower ones are supported by convex-curved heavy inclined queen-posts that thicken towards the top. Long curved braces connect to the tie-beams.
Local climate
Barn 20 Metres to East of Old Farm House 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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