North West Barn at Bury Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. Barn.
North West Barn at Bury Farm
- WRENN ID
- weathered-hall-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- North West Barn at Bury Farm, St. Paul's Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 186 217
- Coordinates
- 51.88131, -0.27706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The north-west barn at Bury Farm is a mid-17th century structure. It features a timber frame set on a brick sill and is covered with dark weatherboarding and a steeply pitched roof that has been slated. This tall, wide-span barn consists of three bays and faces east, with a gabled porch located at the middle bay. The barn has jowled posts and a mid-height rail that is jointed in-line. Curved tension-braces support the middle bay and the end walls, with a central post at each gable. Long straight braces connect to the tie-beams. The roof is a clasped-purlin design, featuring two purlins on each slope; the upper purlins are supported by a high collar, while the lower ones are held up by straight inclined queen posts. There is a winnowing door at the rear and louvred openings at the eaves of the end bays. The wallplate displays face-halved bladed scarf joints. This barn is included for its group value.
Local climate
North West Barn at Bury 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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