Large Barn to North East of Coach House at Old Westmill Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Agricultural.
Large Barn to North East of Coach House at Old Westmill Farm
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-hammer-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Agricultural
- Address
- Large Barn to North East of Coach House at Old Westmill Farm, Westmill Lane, Ickleford
- OS grid reference
- TL 171 307
- Coordinates
- 51.96325, -0.29618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This large barn, located to the northeast of the coach house at Old Westmill Farm, dates from the mid-17th century. It features a timber frame set on a brick sill, with dark weatherboarding and a steeply pitched corrugated iron roof. The barn consists of five bays and is single-aisled, facing north. It has central double doors on the north side that are recessed to align with the depth of the aisle. The structure includes jowled bay-posts and arcade-posts, with long curved braces connecting to the tie-beams and arcade plate. The roof is designed with clasped purlins, featuring two purlins on each slope. The upper purlin is supported by high collars, while the lower purlin rests on convex curved queen-posts inside the barn and on a lower collar at the gable ends. Similar convex curved queen-posts also support the aisle-purlin, which is carried on aisle-ties. The walls are reinforced with straight tension braces.
Local climate
Large Barn to North East of Coach House at Old Westmill Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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