Barn on Roadside at Upper Watts End is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Barn.
Barn on Roadside at Upper Watts End
- WRENN ID
- eternal-sill-evening
- 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 on Roadside at Upper Watts End, Plough Lane, King's Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 161 245
- Coordinates
- 51.9072, -0.31261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century barn located on the roadside at Upper Watts End in Kings Walden. The barn features an exposed timber frame with red brick infill on the western bay, while the southern half is covered with vertical dark boarding over horizontal weatherboarding. It has a flint sill with red brick dressings and a steep red tiled roof. The barn consists of three bays and faces east, with double doors situated in the middle bay. Notable architectural details include jowled posts, long straight tension braces connecting to the corner posts, and a clasped purlin roof, with one purlin on each slope supported by a collar.
Local climate
Barn on Roadside at Upper Watts End 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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