Farm Building at Entrance to Yard at Hammond's Farm is a Grade II* listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. A C16 Farm building. 1 related planning application.
Farm Building at Entrance to Yard at Hammond's Farm
- WRENN ID
- young-doorway-umber
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Farm building
- Address
- Farm Building at Entrance to Yard at Hammond's Farm, Burge End Lane, Pirton, SG5 3QN
- OS grid reference
- TL 144 322
- Coordinates
- 51.97737, -0.3355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The farm building at the entrance to the yard at Hammond's Farm consists of two adjoining granaries, which date back to the 16th century or earlier. The structure features a timber frame set on a stuccoed brick sill, with some original wattle and daub panels still in place and some lath and plaster on the interior. The exterior is dark weatherboarded, and the steeply pitched roofs are now covered with corrugated iron.
These two contemporary buildings, originally two storeys high, are arranged at right angles to each other, facing south and east. The eastern gable of the northern range has a vane, and the north wall features a five-light diamond mullioned window at the upper level. However, the heavy floor beams have been cut away, leaving the tenons and bracketed seatings on the posts visible. There is a similar blocked window in the eastern bay above a door on the south side.
Architectural details include chamfered jowled posts, slender curved braces supporting the tie-beams, and a mid-height rail that is jointed in-line. The slender straight tension braces are cut into the backs of the wall studs, and the wallplate features an edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts. The roof has inclined queen-struts in a clasped-purlin design.
The western range is structurally separate and retains two bays of heavy floor structure. Its roof has been renewed with inclined queen-posts and squint-butted scarf joints. Notably, the double doors to the southern bay are made from engraved memorial boards that list groups of names from 1918 to 1920. This building represents an unusually extensive granary provision in sophisticated timber-framed construction.
Local climate
Farm Building at Entrance to Yard at Hammond's 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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