The Old Granary is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Granary
- WRENN ID
- haunted-storey-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Granary, Church End, Barley, SG8 8JW
- OS grid reference
- TL 400 384
- Coordinates
- 52.02656, 0.03972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Granary is a house located at Barley Church End, dating from the early to mid 17th century, with a 19th-century extension. It features a timber frame on a brick base, with panelled rendering and a tiled roof. The building has a lobby entry and was originally designed with two cells, later extended at both ends. It stands two storeys tall, with the entrance now positioned to the right of centre, featuring an early 19th-century six-panelled door with four fielded panels, framed by an architrave and set within a 20th-century glazed porch. Above the entrance is a single light casement window. The flanking bays contain flush frame small pane two-light casements. There is an axial ridge stack behind the entrance, which has three conjoined diagonally set shafts. To the left, in the added bay, there is a shallow projection covered in tiles and shingles, along with a large three-light bay window and a two-light gabled dormer. The left end has an extruded stack with offsets, while the right end is weatherboarded and half hipped, featuring one and two-light casements. At the rear, there are scattered small pane casements and two 20th-century single-storey flat-roofed additions that are not of special interest. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Granary 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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