Barn and Attached Stable at Priory Farm, 50 Metres to South West of the Priory is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. Barn, stable.
Barn and Attached Stable at Priory Farm, 50 Metres to South West of the Priory
- WRENN ID
- leaning-banister-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- Barn, stable
- OS grid reference
- TL 218 279
- Coordinates
- 51.93666, -0.2293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn and attached stable located at Priory Farm, 50 meters southwest of The Priory. The barn dates from the 17th century, while the stable is from the 18th century. The structure is timber framed with tarred brick sills and is covered in dark weatherboarding. The barn has a thatched roof that is now covered with corrugated iron, while the stable features a steep hipped roof made of old red tiles at the northern end.
The barn consists of three bays, with one long side now open to the yard on the north side. The tall stable is attached at the eastern end, projecting to the north and facing into the yard on the west. There is a gabled lucarne with a boarded door leading to the loft above the stable on the eastern side. The barn features jowled posts, long straight tension braces, straight braces to the tie-beams, and inclined straight queen-posts that support the single clasped-purlin in each slope of the roof. Notably, the western end of the barn stands over an infilled section of the moat that once surrounded the former priory.
Local climate
Barn and Attached Stable at Priory Farm, 50 Metres to South West of the Priory 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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