North and East Barn Ranges at Westbury Farm Alongside School Lane is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Barn.
North and East Barn Ranges at Westbury Farm Alongside School Lane
- WRENN ID
- ancient-bastion-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- North and East Barn Ranges at Westbury Farm Alongside School Lane, Offley
- OS grid reference
- TL 141 271
- Coordinates
- 51.93111, -0.34134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The North and East barn ranges at Westbury Farm alongside School Lane are 17th-century structures with alterations made to the roofs of the northern range in the 19th century. They feature a timber frame on a low brick sill, dark weatherboarding, and steeply pitched roofs, with the eastern range now covered in corrugated asbestos and the northern range slated. The southern barn is a four-bay, single-aisled barn facing west, characterized by jowled posts, straight braces to the tie-beams and arcade plate, and a mid-height rail in the walls that is tenoned in-line. It has a clasped-purlin roof with two purlins on each slope, the upper purlin resting on a high collar in each truss and the lower on inclined straight queen-posts. The aisle on the west side has been rebuilt with a higher wall, a flatter-pitched slated roof, and double doors, likely replacing the original gabled porch. The lower northern barn has two aisles, with the western aisle rebuilt similarly to the other barn, featuring some stepped and some swept jowls on pairs of arcade posts, curved braces to the tie-beams, and an edge-halved scarf joint in the wallplate. It has a single clasped purlin on each slope supported by inclined straight queen-posts. The long northern range adjoins a similar structure, but its roof structure was renewed at a steep pitch in the 19th century.
Local climate
North and East Barn Ranges at Westbury Farm Alongside School Lane 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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