West Barn at Gurneys is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Barn.
West Barn at Gurneys
- WRENN ID
- patient-forge-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- West Barn at Gurneys, Gurneys Lane, Holwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 164 335
- Coordinates
- 51.98807, -0.30525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Barn at Gurneys is a 17th-century barn that has been renovated in the late 20th century and now features a swimming pool inside. It has a timber frame resting on a red brick sill, with the frame exposed and brick infill panels. The barn has a steep old red scalloped tile roof and is rectangular with four bays, facing south. There is a short gabled wing on the north side, which was probably originally a porch. The barn includes small cast iron lattice windows, jowled posts, and long straight braces leading to the tie-beams. The roof structure consists of clasped purlins, with one purlin on each slope supported by inclined queen-posts inside and a collar truss at each gable.
Local climate
West Barn at Gurneys 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings