Greenbury is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House.
Greenbury
- WRENN ID
- bitter-sentry-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Greenbury, London Road, Barley
- OS grid reference
- TL 397 383
- Coordinates
- 52.02593, 0.03615
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greenbury is a house located on the north side of Barley London Road, dating from the early 17th century with later extensions in the 17th century and alterations in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame with panelled rendering and weatherboarding, topped by a steeply pitched thatched roof. It has a five-bay lobby entry and was originally designed as two cells, later extended at both ends. The house is one storey with an attic, and has a weatherboarded dado.
The central entrance is located in a gabled, half-glazed porch added in the 20th century. To the left of the entrance are two 19th-century canted oriel windows with brackets and small pane casements. To the right, there is a horizontal sliding sash window, a single pane window, and a two-light casement, all with flush frames and hoodboards. The right side also features two three-light dormers with eyebrow thatching and leaded lights in metal frames.
A central axial ridge stack has a rebuilt cap, while the left end has a hip roof with weatherboarding on the ground floor, a pentice board, and a two-light attic casement. The right end has a half hip, an entrance, and a first-floor canted oriel with a cornice and exposed plates. The rear of the house displays mixed fenestration and includes a Sun Fire Insurance Marker.
Attached to the right is a 20th-century link to a former cow shed, which is weatherboarded with a slate roof, and a two-storey block from the 19th century made of roughcast brick with a slate roof, featuring scattered casements and a white brick stack. Inside, the house showcases exposed framing, jowled posts with arched braces to cambered tie beams, ogee stop-chamfered bearers and fireplace lintels, an inglenook with a bread oven, and a spice cupboard.
Local climate
Greenbury sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% 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 59% 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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