Barn 15 Metres South West of Astridge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Barn.

Barn 15 Metres South West of Astridge Farmhouse

WRENN ID
veiled-rotunda-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 177 163
Coordinates
51.8331, -0.29296
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 17th-century barn located 15 metres southwest of Astridge Farmhouse in Gustardwood Common, Wheathampstead. The barn features a timber frame that is weatherboarded, with a painted brick base and a plain tile roof. It has a gabled entrance facing the farmyard and consists of five bays. The structure includes clasped purlins, with collar braces supported by queen struts.

Local climate

Barn 15 Metres South West of Astridge Farmhouse 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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