East Barn at New Wellbury Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Barn.
East Barn at New Wellbury Farm
- WRENN ID
- burning-crypt-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- East Barn at New Wellbury Farm, Wellbury Park, Offley
- OS grid reference
- TL 139 293
- Coordinates
- 51.95132, -0.34358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
East Barn at New Wellbury Farm is a 17th-century barn constructed with a timber frame resting on a red brick sill in English bond. It is dark weatherboarded and features a steeply pitched half-hipped roof, currently covered with corrugated iron but originally thatched with thin spars. The barn is tall and consists of six bays, which are used as two separate three-bay barns, facing west. There is a later partition in the middle that does not have a masonry sill. The barn has swept jowls on the posts, long curved braces supporting cambered tie-beams, and a mid-height rail that is tenoned in line. The clasped-purlin roof includes one purlin on each slope, supported by slightly inclined queen-posts that thicken at the head, with splayed scarf joints to the purlin. There are slots for wind-braces that are now missing, and the wallplate next to the post features face-halved bladed scarf joints. Additionally, there are small winnowing doors on the east side in the second bay from each end.
Local climate
East Barn at New Wellbury Farm 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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