Barn Approximately 33 Metres South South East of Verulamium Museum (Not Included) is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1988. Barn.

Barn Approximately 33 Metres South South East of Verulamium Museum (Not Included)

WRENN ID
gilded-corridor-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1988
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 136 072
Coordinates
51.75245, -0.35464
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This barn, located approximately 33 meters south-southeast of Verulamium Museum, dates from the mid-18th century. It features 20th-century weatherboarding over a timber frame set on a brick plinth, topped with a gabled roof covered in plain tiles from the mid-18th to mid-19th century. The barn has a six-bay plan, with a threshing floor situated in the second bay from the right. A gabled porch is located at the front, with an outshut to the right. The porch has 20th-century windows inserted into its double doors, and there are also 20th-century double doors at the rear.

Inside, the timber framing is divided by a middle rail set between the wall posts, creating two panels per bay length, with diagonal bracing from post to rail. Some mid-19th-century machine-sawn timbers are included among the timber-framed studding of the walls. The unjowled posts with diagonal bracing support the six-bay common-rafter roof, which features split oak rafters. Each truss has an upper collar and angled struts connecting the tie beam to clasped purlins, with windbraces in the end bays and the threshing floor bay. The outshut to the right of the porch likely served as a storage area for implements and retains some 18th-century weatherboarding with lapped joints. The partition to the left of the threshing floor is made of mid-19th-century machine-sawn timbers but likely occupies the position of an original partition.

Historically, the barn was situated on the east side of the foldyard of St Germain's Farm, which has been documented since the 16th century. A map from 1766 indicates that a building existed on the site of the barn.

Local climate

Barn Approximately 33 Metres South South East of Verulamium Museum (Not Included) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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