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. 1 related planning application.

East Barn at Langley Farm

WRENN ID
south-basalt-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1988
Type
Barn
Address
East Barn at Langley Farm, Langley Lane, SG4 7PS
OS grid reference
TL 211 226
Coordinates
51.88928, -0.24116
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The East Barn at Langley Farm is a barn that dates from the 16th century for the southern part and the mid-17th century for the northern part. The barn features a timber frame set on a red brick sill and is covered in dark weatherboarding with a steeply pitched roof now made of corrugated sheeting. It is a long structure facing west into the yard and becomes taller as the ground slopes to the north.

The 16th-century section has heavy jowled posts and curved tension braces at the ends, with a single purlin clasped by a collar for each truss, supported by vertical queen-struts below. The two southern bays include a rear aisle. The taller three-bay northern part also has jowled posts and features one purlin for each slope, inclined queen-posts, a mid-height rail, and long straight braces connecting to the tie beam. There are opposed doors located in the middle bay. In the 19th century, a floor and corn bins were inserted into the two northern bays of the 16th-century section.

Local climate

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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