Barn at Pirton Cottage to North East of Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Barn.
Barn at Pirton Cottage to North East of Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- distant-banister-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Pirton Cottage to North East of Gatehouse, Shillington Road, SG5 3HB
- OS grid reference
- TL 123 329
- Coordinates
- 51.98372, -0.36606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located at Pirton Cottage, to the northeast of the Gatehouse, dating from the late 16th century. The roof structure has been renewed, and the year '1847' is carved on a tie-beam. The barn features a timber frame set on a brick sill, is dark weatherboarded, and has a steeply pitched roof covered with composition tiles. It is a tall barn with seven bays, featuring double doors in the second bay from each end, and there is a 19th-century one bay extension at the west. The barn has jowled posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, and a mid-height rail that is jointed in-line, with straight and S-curved tension braces positioned above the rail. The wallplates have edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts and large face pegs. There are straight braces supporting the tie-beams, and the roof trusses are 19th-century queen-post timber trusses.
Local climate
Barn at Pirton Cottage to North East of Gatehouse 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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