Barn House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Barn House
- WRENN ID
- iron-corner-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Barn House, Turnpike Lane, Ickleford, SG5 3UZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 182 315
- Coordinates
- 51.96979, -0.28017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barn House is a 17th-century building that has been altered in the 1980s to serve as a house. Originally a barn and stable, it is timber framed on red brick sills, with the frame exposed and red brick infill panels, while the rear is roughcast. The stable at the back is made of red brick. The building features steep old red tile roofs and consists of a tall three-bay barn that backs onto the road and faces south into a courtyard. It has a projecting gabled porch in the middle and a lower single-storey former stable extending to the west up to the gatehouse. Architectural details include jowled posts, full-height studs, long straight tension braces, and a clasped-purlin roof with two purlins on each slope supported by two collars at the gables. The house has casement windows, two gabled dormers, and a chimney on the rear roofslope. This building is part of a picturesque courtyard group that includes outbuildings of Ickleford Manor, which suffered a fire in 1911. It is included for its group value.
Local climate
Barn House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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