Barn at Hill Farm is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Barn. 2 related planning applications.
Barn at Hill Farm
- WRENN ID
- moated-thatch-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Hill Farm, Plummers Lane, Wheathampstead, AL5 5EB
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 174
- Coordinates
- 51.84386, -0.33722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A barn, dating from the later 18th century, stands at Hill Farm. It is a timber-frame structure with weatherboarding and a plain tile roof. Two gabled cart entrances are located on the east side, and these are flanked by a 19th-century lean-to addition. One lean-to has a slate roof that extends to the ridge. The barn has nine bays constructed with thin timbers. The roof is a double-purlin design; the upper purlins are clasped, while the lower ones have angled braces to tie beams.
Local climate
Barn at Hill 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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