Barns North West of Great Plummers Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. Barns.
Barns North West of Great Plummers Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- graven-column-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- Barns
- Address
- Barns North West of Great Plummers Farmhouse, Plummers Lane, Kimpton
- OS grid reference
- TL 145 183
- Coordinates
- 51.85158, -0.33891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barns located northwest of Great Plummers Farmhouse are a pair of structures built in a single range. The older barn on the northeast dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century, while the southwest barn is from the 17th century. Both barns feature weatherboarding and have plain and machine tile roofs. The northeast barn has original red brick walls on the sides and rear, which include blocked slit ventilators. It also has a gabled porch facing the farmhouse and consists of three timber-framed bays supported by two heavy roof purlins. The southwest barn is similarly structured with three bays and a gabled porch, featuring clasped purlins with collar braces supported on queen posts. Additionally, a narrow 18th-century bay has been added to the southeast end of the southwest barn.
Local climate
Barns North West of Great Plummers Farmhouse 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
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