Barns at West End Farm is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Barn. 2 related planning applications.
Barns at West End Farm
- WRENN ID
- woven-bonework-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barns at West End Farm, Ferrers Lane, Wheathampstead, AL4 8EG
- OS grid reference
- TL 161 125
- Coordinates
- 51.79924, -0.31639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barns at West End Farm, dating from the 18th century or early 19th century, are located immediately west of the farmhouse. They are constructed with a timber frame and feature weatherboarding and a plain tile roof. The eastern barn has five bays and a roof supported by queen struts and clasped purlins, with a gabled porch at the northeast end. The western barn also has five bays and similar construction, with a gabled porch located at the center of the west side.
Local climate
Barns at West End 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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