Barn to North West of Park Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. Barn.
Barn to North West of Park Farm
- WRENN ID
- iron-pavement-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn to North West of Park Farm, Park Lane, Kimpton
- OS grid reference
- TL 173 187
- Coordinates
- 51.85483, -0.29755
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located to the northwest of Park Farm, dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It features a timber frame with red brick and a coped plinth, along with weatherboarding and a plain tile roof. The barn consists of five bays, with walls that have heavy close studding and end walls supported by long diagonal braces. The roof is constructed with clasped purlins and slightly curved wind braces. There are 20th-century partitions inside.
Local climate
Barn to North West of Park Farm 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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