Barn on East Side of Pipers Farm, Including Little Pipers is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Barn.
Barn on East Side of Pipers Farm, Including Little Pipers
- WRENN ID
- empty-ashlar-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn on East Side of Pipers Farm, Including Little Pipers, Pipers Lane, Wheathampstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 160 135
- Coordinates
- 51.80831, -0.31869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn and stable block located on the east side of Pipers Farm, including Little Pipers, dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. The barn features a timber frame and is weatherboarded, consisting of four bays with medium scantling and straight braces supporting the mid-height purlins. It has a plain tile roof and a central porch on the west side. The early 19th-century stable block, known as Little Pipers, is attached to the northwest, creating an L-shaped plan. The two-storey road elevation of the stable block is made of red brick, has pargetting, and features 20th-century casements. The weatherboarded west gable includes a dovecot.
Local climate
Barn on East Side of Pipers Farm, Including Little Pipers 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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