Barn About 60 Metres South East of Hay Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. Barn.
Barn About 60 Metres South East of Hay Farm House
- WRENN ID
- knotted-bronze-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1986
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 337 371
- Coordinates
- 52.01641, -0.0526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century barn located about 60 meters southeast of Hay Farm House in Therfield. The barn features a timber frame built on a brick base and is weatherboarded. It has a steeply pitched roof made of corrugated iron and consists of four bays with a single aisle. There are double doors in the second bay from the end nearest the road. Inside, the structure includes arched braces extending from jowled posts to cambered tie beams, with angled struts that clasp the purlins.
Local climate
Barn About 60 Metres South East of Hay Farm House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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