Barn at the Grange House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. Barn.

Barn at the Grange House

WRENN ID
last-cobalt-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 May 1987
Type
Barn
Address
Barn at the Grange House, London Road, St. Ippolyts
OS grid reference
TL 189 279
Coordinates
51.93732, -0.27115
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Barn at The Grange House is a structure dating from around 1700, with some parts encased in brick during the 18th or early 19th century. It features a timber frame resting on a brick sill, with dark weatherboarding on the south side and a roughcast gable triangle on the south. The barn is also partially covered with red brick between the bay posts. It has a steeply pitched old red tile roof that is half-hipped at the west end. This tall, five-bay barn is located at a street corner, facing south, with its back and west gable visible from the roadsides. The central bay has double doors, while the west bay has been rebuilt in brick to serve as a stable, complete with a loft above. There is a stable door and a window on the south side. The upper floor is plastered internally, and the upper door in the gable has been altered. Inside, the barn features jowled posts only at the corners, with unjowled posts elsewhere, and long straight braces connecting to the tie-beams. The roof is supported by inclined queen-struts that connect to the collars of the clasped-purlin roof.

Local climate

Barn at the Grange House 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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