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

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Essendonbury Farmhouse Grade II 58 m
  2. Essendon Mill Grade II 209 m
  3. Holwell Manor Grade II 343 m
  4. The Manor House Grade II 754 m
  5. Wheatsheafs Grade II 772 m
  6. Sherwoods,Beggars Roost, Norcott Grade II 785 m
  7. The Salisbury Crest Public House Grade II 810 m
  8. Church Cottages Grade II 818 m
  9. Church of St Mary the Virgin Grade II* 828 m
  10. Wytmead Grade II 828 m