Wheat Barn
WHEAT BARN, SANDON BURY, SANDON, SG9 0QY
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1102609
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Wheat Barn
- Statutory Address:
- WHEAT BARN, SANDON BURY, SANDON, SG9 0QY
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1102609
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wheat Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHEAT BARN, SANDON BURY, SANDON, SG9 0QY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WHEAT BARN, SANDON BURY, SANDON, SG9 0QY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 32289 34462
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/09/2017
TL 33 SW
7/95
SANDON
Sandon Bury
Wheat Barn
(Formerly listed as Barn about 35 metres southeast of Sandon Bury, Sandon, previously listed as Barn at Sandonbury)
27.5.68
GV
II*
Aisled barn. C14 or earlier. Altered late C17 and C19. Timber frame, rendered brick base. Weatherboarded and red brick clad. Slate roof.
Six bays with a shorter bay to end nearest road. End wall facing road is C17 brick with plinth, plat bands, two horizontal and an upper vertical oval openings. Brick coped parapet to broad gable with kneelers. Inserted windows in long sides with double doors in second bay facing yard.
Interior: large scantling to frame with slightly curved braces from unjowled arcade posts to tie beams and arcade plates. Splayed and tabled scarf joints in arcade plates. Passing braces with later reinforcing braces inserted. Above tie beams renewed with struts to principals. Originally had double aisle ties clasping wall plates, corner ties at hipped ends. One stone and brick plinth across aisle to arcade post. Studs, braces, mid rail in walling. C20 additions to right and to rear not of special interest.
(C.A. Hewett, AMS Transactions, Aisled Timber Halls and Related Buildings, 1969, p.56: Pevsner 1977: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3228934462
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162418
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society in Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, (1969), 56
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 12-Jun-2026 at 05:50:57.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.