West Barn at Mackerye End Farm is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Barn.
West Barn at Mackerye End Farm
- WRENN ID
- narrow-plaster-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- West Barn at Mackerye End Farm, Wheathampstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 156 157
- Coordinates
- 51.82799, -0.32254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Barn at Mackerye End Farm is a barn range dating from the 18th century and early 19th century. It features a timber frame with weatherboarding and a red brick base, topped with a plain tile roof. The 18th-century section consists of five bays and has a central gabled cart entrance on the east side, flanked by contemporary outshuts. Inside, there is a single purlin roof supported by collar braces and queen struts. The early 19th-century barn to the south has three bays and includes part of a 17th-century wall on its southern side, although it is of lesser interest.
Local climate
West Barn at Mackerye 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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