Cowshed at Kettlewells Farm is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Cowshed.
Cowshed at Kettlewells Farm
- WRENN ID
- dusk-pavement-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cowshed
- Address
- Cowshed at Kettlewells Farm, Hogg End Lane, St. Michael
- OS grid reference
- TL 103 083
- Coordinates
- 51.76264, -0.40172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cowshed at Kettlewell's Farm is a late 18th-century building. It is a single-storey structure with a weatherboarded exterior, forming an L shape. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The timber frame features a clasped purlin roof, with curved braces supporting the tie beams and straight wall braces. The southern side has six bays, while there is a 19th-century lean-to addition on the left side that has a slate roof and eaves ventilators along the entire front. The slightly lower western range consists of three bays and is open on the eastern side.
Local climate
Cowshed at Kettlewells Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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