Barn at Searches Farm is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Barn. 9 related planning applications.
Barn at Searches Farm
- WRENN ID
- narrow-kitchen-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Searches Farm, Searches Lane, St. Stephen, WD5 0SB
- OS grid reference
- TL 113 034
- Coordinates
- 51.71875, -0.38949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Searches Farm is an 18th-century structure located on the north side of the farmyard. It features a long weatherboarded exterior and a plain tile roof, comprising ten bays. The north side includes a gabled cart entrance, while the southwest side has a late 18th or early 19th-century red brick extension, which is distinguished by dentilled brick eaves and a hipped roof. Inside the main barn, there are two threshing floors situated to the east and west of the center.
Local climate
Barn at Searches Farm 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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