Barn at Praewood Farm is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1990. Barn. 2 related planning applications.
Barn at Praewood Farm
- WRENN ID
- tangled-railing-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1990
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Praewood Farm, Hemel Hempstead Road, AL3 6AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 128 068
- Coordinates
- 51.74906, -0.36691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Praewood Farm, likely built in the early 18th century, consists of two sections with later alterations. It features a timber frame with weatherboard cladding on a brick plinth and a plain tile roof, with Welsh slate used for the added outshuts. The barn has seven bays, with the four on the right being the oldest. There are two gabled midstrays; the left one has a later double door and weatherboard, while the right one does not have doors. An open-fronted lean-to is located between the midstrays, and there is a weatherboard outshut at the left end. A former stable range projects from the right end of the barn. At the rear, there is an opposing cart entry to bay three, flanked by loading hatches—one on the right is boarded across, while the left has a shutter.
Inside, the barn features large unjowelled wall-posts that are arch-braced to tie-beams, supporting tall queen struts. It has clasped purlins, old rafters, a later ridge-piece, and curved wind-braces. The wall frame includes a sole plate, mid-rail, and wall plate, with close-set studs, most of which are 19th-century replacements, and raking braces. The braces connecting the wall posts to the tie-beams are straighter in the slightly later left-hand section, which is now partitioned off.
Local climate
Barn at Praewood 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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- 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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