Barn at Camfield Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Barn.

Barn at Camfield Farm

WRENN ID
gentle-spandrel-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1983
Type
Barn
Address
Barn at Camfield Farm, Essendon
OS grid reference
TL 268 069
Coordinates
51.74666, -0.16395
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn at Camfield Farm is a timber-framed structure dating from the 17th century or early 18th century. It is connected to a single-storey outbuilding from the 17th century on the left. The barn is weatherboarded and features a plain tile roof. A gabled cart entrance is located in the center of the south side, flanked by lean-to outshuts. The barn consists of three bays and has a queen post roof. There is a 19th-century link bay that is open on the south side and has a 17th-century red brick wall at the rear.

Local climate

Barn at Camfield Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% 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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