Austins Hall Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.

Austins Hall Farm

WRENN ID
slow-trefoil-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 October 1952
Type
House
Address
Austins Hall Farm, Venus Hill, Flaunden, HP3 0PG
OS grid reference
TL 015 017
Coordinates
51.70542, -0.53158
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Austins Hall Farm is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house. It dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with the eastern part likely added around 1900. The building features an exposed timber frame with painted brick infill and has steep old red tile roofs with half-hipped crosswings. It is a two-storey house with attics, arranged in a T-plan that faces north and has been extended to the east to form an H-plan. The facade has five windows, including a hipped dormer and casement windows, along with a porch that leads to a lobby-entry by a large internal chimney serving the hall range and the west wing.

Inside, the farmhouse retains the exposed frame of a three-bay hall range and a three-bay west crosswing. There is a winding stair located in a turret at the rear angle of the east crosswing. The west wing features a three-light diamond mullioned window on its west wall. The timber frame includes wide panels, jowled posts, numbered joists, and curved braces to cambered tie-beams. It also has straight wind-braces supporting the clasped-purlin roofs, chamfered axial floor beams, and some surviving wattle-and-daub infill on the first floor.

Adjacent to the east wing, there is a lead pump box with raised lettering that reads 'Scott/Plumber/TW/1831/Harrow'. In the forecourt, a large carved stone Ionic pilaster capital is said to be from the Temple of the Winds at Moor Park.

Local climate

Austins Hall 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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