Barn in Former Mill Yard 50 Metres to North East of Number 16 is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Barn.

Barn in Former Mill Yard 50 Metres to North East of Number 16

WRENN ID
tilted-vault-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1988
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 187 210
Coordinates
51.87539, -0.27595
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn located in a former mill yard, dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It features a timber frame set on a low brick sill and is covered in dark weatherboarding, topped with a steeply pitched roof made of corrugated iron. The barn has three low bays and faces south into the yard, with a double door opening in the middle bay on the south side. The structure includes heavy jowled posts and long curved braces that support cambered tie-beams. There is a face-halved scarf joint in the rear wallplate, and heavy straight inclined queen-posts support a single purlin on each side of the roof. A simple splayed scarf joint is present in the purlin over the truss, along with long tension braces extending from the corner posts to the sill-beam. Additionally, there are small quadrant braces from the 18th or 19th century in the door frame.

Local climate

Barn in Former Mill Yard 50 Metres to North East of Number 16 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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