Gatehouse at Loxley Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Gatehouse.

Gatehouse at Loxley Farm

WRENN ID
long-bastion-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1986
Type
Gatehouse
Address
Gatehouse at Loxley Farm, Chapel Lane, Tring Rural, HP23 4QT
OS grid reference
SP 895 156
Coordinates
51.83265, -0.7012
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gatehouse at Loxley Farm is a 16th-century structure located on Chapel Lane in Long Marston. The front and east gable end are faced in brick from the 18th century, while the west gable was faced in the 20th century. It features a timber frame resting on a red brick sill, which is cased in red brick with black headers, and has a steep old red tile roof. The building is tall and consists of two bays, with a carriageway through the west bay. Inside the carriageway, the right-hand side is lined with weatherboarding on an oak frame, while the left-hand side showcases an exposed timber frame with red brick nogging and remaining wattle and daub panels in the upper part. The structure has wide-spaced studs and a mid-height rail, with a door leading into the east bay. It also features jowled posts and a clasped-purlin roof, with a single purlin on each slope supported by long curved wind-braces. Other farm buildings were destroyed by fire in 1917.

Local climate

Gatehouse at Loxley Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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