Barn on Roadside Now Garage to Spindle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Barn. 2 related planning applications.

Barn on Roadside Now Garage to Spindle Cottage

WRENN ID
grim-gravel-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1988
Type
Barn
Address
Barn on Roadside Now Garage to Spindle Cottage, Hitchin Road, Preston, SG4 7TZ
OS grid reference
TL 180 248
Coordinates
51.91009, -0.28547
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 17th-century barn that has been converted into a garage for Spindle Cottage. It features a timber frame that is covered with dark weatherboarding, resting on a sill made of flints with corners of tarred brick. The barn has a steeply pitched roof, which is now made of corrugated asbestos. It is a tall, two-bay structure located on the roadside, facing east. The northern half of the front is taken up by a large boarded sliding door. This building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Barn on Roadside Now Garage to Spindle Cottage 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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