Barn About 20 Metres North of the Main Farm Buildings at Model Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1977. Barn. 1 related planning application.
Barn About 20 Metres North of the Main Farm Buildings at Model Farm
- WRENN ID
- distant-brick-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1977
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 067 004
- Coordinates
- 51.69283, -0.45697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an aisled barn located about 20 metres north of the main farm buildings at Model Farm. It dates from the 14th century but was substantially remodeled in the early 17th century. The barn features a timber frame built on a brick base, with a weatherboarded exterior and a plain tiled roof that is half-hipped at the left end. A central gabled midstrey faces the farm buildings, with opposing double doors beneath the gable.
Inside, the barn has jowled arcade posts, many of which have a jowled base, along with slightly curved braces connecting to the tie beams, braces to the arcade plates, and some aisle ties. The roof structure consists of queen strut roof trusses with scarfed clasped purlins. Nine of the aisle posts have skewed trenches for passing braces, and four of the tie beams include mortices to receive the ends of these braces.
Historically, the barn represents a significant remodeling of an earlier and possibly larger aisled barn. The 17th-century alterations included replacing the roof structure, raising the side walls and aisle ties, and adding the midstrey. Surviving elements from the earlier structure include nine arcade posts, four tie beams with supporting braces, and arcade plates featuring splayed and tabled scarf joints at the east end, along with re-set aisle ties. This barn is a complex, multi-phase farm building that clearly showcases the different carpentry techniques used during its construction phases.
Local climate
Barn About 20 Metres North of the Main Farm Buildings at Model 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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