Barn on East Side of Farmyard at Essendonbury Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Agricultural.
Barn on East Side of Farmyard at Essendonbury Farm
- WRENN ID
- leaning-porch-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Agricultural
- OS grid reference
- TL 273 095
- Coordinates
- 51.77052, -0.15579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a barn located on the east side of the farmyard at Essendonbury Farm. It dates from the 17th century and is constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding, topped with a corrugated asbestos roof. The barn has three bays and features a queen post roof construction, with a gabled projecting cart entrance on the west side. There is a single-storey extension to the north, built in the 18th century from red brick, which has a half-timbered gable end. On the east side, there are two small recessed windows.
Local climate
Barn on East Side of Farmyard at Essendonbury 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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