Main Barn at Dane Farm is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Barn. 11 related planning applications.
Main Barn at Dane Farm
- WRENN ID
- third-gutter-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Main Barn at Dane Farm, Kimpton Bottom, Wheathampstead, AL5 5EB
- OS grid reference
- TL 148 173
- Coordinates
- 51.84253, -0.33466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, dating to the 17th century, is located at Dane Farm in Wheathampstead. It is a timber-frame structure with weatherboarding and a plain tile roof. The barn has seven bays, with a gable end facing the road. The east elevation features a gabled cart entrance positioned towards the right, and to the left is a 17th or 18th century lean-to range with eaves ventilators. Inside, the barn has heavy, mid-height rails and curved braces, supporting a roof with clasped purlins.
Local climate
Main Barn at Dane 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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