South West Barn at Rear of Yard at Wellhead Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Barn.
South West Barn at Rear of Yard at Wellhead Farm
- WRENN ID
- nether-passage-yarrow
- 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 West Barn at Rear of Yard at Wellhead Farm, Preston
- OS grid reference
- TL 175 276
- Coordinates
- 51.93459, -0.29195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The south-west barn at the rear of the yard at Wellhead Farm is a late 17th-century structure. It features a timber frame set on a red brick sill and is covered in dark weatherboarding with a steeply pitched roof that was originally thatched but is now finished with asbestos sheeting. This tall barn has four bays and faces north, with double doors located in the second bay from the west. The barn includes jowled posts and long cranked braces supporting the tie-beams. Each roof slope has two purlins, with the upper purlin clasped by a high collar and the lower purlin butt-jointed. Additionally, there are straight wind-braces connecting to the lower purlin at the gable ends.
Local climate
South West Barn at Rear of Yard at Wellhead 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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