Barn at Wants End Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Barn.
Barn at Wants End Farm
- WRENN ID
- outer-steeple-grove
- 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 Wants End Farm, King's Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 161 245
- Coordinates
- 51.90779, -0.31278
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Wants End Farm is a 17th-century structure featuring a timber frame on a brick sill, covered in dark weatherboarding, and topped with a steeply pitched tiled roof. This tall barn has three bays and is situated at the rear of the yard, facing south. It includes double doors in the middle bay and a rear outshut under a catslide extension of the main roof. The barn is supported by very heavy jowled posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, and a staggered mid-height rail, with long cranked braces connecting to the tie-beams of the clasped-purlin roof. The wallplates over the posts are joined with face-halved bladed scarf joints. In the 19th century, king-post trusses were added alongside the older trusses to help support part of the roof's load.
Local climate
Barn at Wants End 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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