Barn at the Maiden's Public House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Barn.
Barn at the Maiden's Public House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-moulding-weasel
- 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 at the Maiden's Public House, 69, High Street, St. Paul's Walden, SG4 8AH
- OS grid reference
- TL 184 211
- Coordinates
- 51.876, -0.28097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at The Maiden's Public House is an 18th-century structure located to the rear of No. 69 on the south side of High Street in Whitwell. It features a timber frame that is dark weatherboarded and has a steeply pitched thatched roof, which is covered with black corrugated iron. The barn consists of four tall bays and is positioned against the western boundary of the property, facing east. It has double doors and the interior includes unjowled posts and a clasped-purlin roof supported by slender spars for the thatch. This barn is included in the listing for its group value.
Local climate
Barn at the Maiden's Public House 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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