Barn and Cowshed Immediately South West of Westwick Hall is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Barn, cowshed. 2 related planning applications.
Barn and Cowshed Immediately South West of Westwick Hall
- WRENN ID
- winter-attic-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn, cowshed
- Address
- Barn and Cowshed Immediately South West of Westwick Hall, Beechtree Lane, St. Michael, AL3 6AP
- OS grid reference
- TL 103 067
- Coordinates
- 51.74895, -0.40248
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A barn and cowshed, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, is constructed of timber frame and weatherboarding, with a plain tile roof. The barn itself is five bays wide, featuring a clasped purlin roof and a tall base made of flint and brick. It has a 19th-century slate roof and lean-to additions on the south side. A lower, three-bay cowshed is attached to the right, built in similar construction.
Local climate
Barn and Cowshed Immediately South West of Westwick Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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 — 3 transactions since 2003
- 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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