Barn on East Side of Kimpton Hall Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. A C17 Barn.

Barn on East Side of Kimpton Hall Farm

WRENN ID
spare-pediment-barley
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 on East Side of Kimpton Hall Farm, Hall Lane
OS grid reference
TL 173 176
Coordinates
51.84529, -0.2977
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 17th-century barn located on the east side of Kimpton Hall Farm. It features weatherboarding and a base made of red brick and flint. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with corrugated iron. The north gable end is constructed of 17th-century red brick. There is a gabled cart entrance in the center of the west side. The barn has five bays with a timber frame, queen struts to collar brace, and close-studded walls.

Local climate

Barn on East Side of Kimpton Hall 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 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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