The Tile House (On North Corner with Kings Lane) is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House.

The Tile House (On North Corner with Kings Lane)

WRENN ID
tangled-wicket-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
House
Address
The Tile House (On North Corner with Kings Lane), the Street, Chipperfield
OS grid reference
TL 043 016
Coordinates
51.70417, -0.49072
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Tile House, located on the northeast corner with Kings Lane, is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private residence. It dates from the 17th century or earlier and was altered and enlarged to the southeast in 1923, at which point it was renamed from Elm Tree Farm. The building features a timber frame with a roughcast ground floor and a tile-hung first floor, topped with steep old red tile roofs.

This two-storey house has four windows and faces west, set back from the road at a crossroads. The older section of the house is L-shaped, with a northeast rear wing and a large chimney at the junction of the two sections. The west range consists of three cells, with a narrow unheated bay that may have served as a parlour at the south end. The wide middle section, possibly a hall, is heated by an internal chimney at the north end, which leads into a cross-passage to the north behind the chimney.

The house displays axial beams and shows evidence of a possible continuous west front jetty. The front features three-light flush casement windows, with a one-light window on the left-hand side, and a square hipped bay window on the left on the ground floor. Inside, the property has chamfered beams with scroll stops.

Local climate

The Tile House (On North Corner with Kings Lane) 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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