South Barn at Brownings Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. A C18 Barn. 5 related planning applications.
South Barn at Brownings Farm
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-pewter-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- South Barn at Brownings Farm, Brownings Lane, King's Walden, SG4 8PB
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 222
- Coordinates
- 51.88743, -0.33514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 18th-century barn located on the west side of Browning's Lane in Kings Walden, near Breachwood Green. It is a timber-frame structure built on a brick cill and is clad in dark weatherboarding, topped with a steep red tile roof. The barn has three bays facing north, with a central pair of double doors and a rear aisle. Inside, the timber framing features unjowled posts, curved braces to the arcade plate, and straight braces to the tie-beams. The roof is a clasped-purlin design, with one purlin on each side and inclined queen posts widening towards the top. There is a mid-height rail within the walls.
Local climate
South Barn at Brownings Farm 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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