Barn on West Side of Kimpton Hall Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. Barn. 1 related planning application.

Barn on West Side of Kimpton Hall Farm

WRENN ID
bitter-gargoyle-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1984
Type
Barn
Address
Barn on West Side of Kimpton Hall Farm, Hall Lane
OS grid reference
TL 173 176
Coordinates
51.84513, -0.29859
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century barn located on the west side of Kimpton Hall Farm. It features a timber frame and is weatherboarded with a plain tile roof. The south gable end has red brick infill. There is a gabled cart entrance at the center of the west side, and the barn consists of five bays with thin scantling. Queen struts support the mid-height purlins.

Local climate

Barn on West Side of Kimpton Hall 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 82% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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