North East Barn at Langley Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Barn.
North East Barn at Langley Farm
- WRENN ID
- last-corbel-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 214 223
- Coordinates
- 51.8867, -0.23692
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The north-east barn at Langley Farm is a Grade II listed building dating from the early 17th century. It features a timber structure set on a low brick sill, with dark weatherboarding and steeply pitched old red tile roofs. The barn has a tall design with five bays, facing south, and includes central double doors along with a lower gabled projection at the rear of the same bay. Architectural details include stepped jowled posts, heavy curved tension braces in the walls, and long curved braces supporting the cambered tie-beams. Inside, upright queen-struts support the collar in the trusses, which in turn hold a clasped-purlin roof, where the upper purlin is clasped by the collar and the lower purlin is butt-jointed. Straight windbraces are positioned above the lower purlin, and there is a face-halved bladed scarf joint in the wallplate. Additionally, some coursed-pebble infill panels can be found at the west end of the barn.
Local climate
North East Barn at Langley 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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