Cartshed Next Entrance to Forecourt at Rectory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Cartshed.
Cartshed Next Entrance to Forecourt at Rectory Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stony-ledge-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Cartshed
- Address
- Cartshed Next Entrance to Forecourt at Rectory Farmhouse, Shillington Road, Pirton
- OS grid reference
- TL 141 318
- Coordinates
- 51.97375, -0.33929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a cartshed, which is now partly used as a garage. It dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century and features a timber frame with dark weatherboarding and an old red tile roof that extends over the rear aisle. The structure has six bays and is open-fronted, facing north and backing onto the road, with a rear aisle. It includes straight braces to the tie beams and inclined queen-posts that support one purlin on each slope. This building is included for its group value with the nearby Rectory Farmhouse.
Local climate
Cartshed Next Entrance to Forecourt at Rectory Farmhouse 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.
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