South Barn Range at Howells Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. Barn, swimming pool enclosure, meeting room. 1 related planning application.
South Barn Range at Howells Farm
- WRENN ID
- still-pediment-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- Barn, swimming pool enclosure, meeting room
- Address
- South Barn Range at Howells Farm, Weston, SG4 7DZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 278 280
- Coordinates
- 51.93652, -0.14125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A barn range, likely dating from the 17th century or earlier, is located at Howells Farm, Weston Halls Green. The range comprises two barns of similar design, joined in-line. The eastern barn now functions as a swimming pool enclosure, while the western barn serves as a meeting room. The timber frame construction rests partly on an old flint sill and partly on renewed brick. The barns are clad in dark weatherboarding, and have steep pitched roofs now covered in slate. The eastern barn features a projecting gabled north porch in the middle bay. The western barn has double doors in its middle bay and a lean-to, roofed outshut on the south side of the same bay.
The eastern barn showcases jowled posts, curved braces to the tie-beams, a mid-height rail within the walls, and one purlin to each roofslope, clasped by a collar with straight queen-struts. It also includes long, curved wind-braces and tension braces. The western barn features jowled posts, long straight tension braces, braces to the tie-beams, and a single purlin to each roofslope carried on inclined straight queen-posts.
Local climate
South Barn Range at Howells Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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