Hill and Coles Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. House.
Hill and Coles Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- slow-kitchen-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill and Coles Farmhouse, London Road, Flamstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 089 155
- Coordinates
- 51.82808, -0.42064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill and Coles Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the early 17th century or earlier, featuring a false front with a parapet and a verandah added in the early 19th century, along with alterations made in the early 20th century. The building has a timber frame that is roughcast, with brick casing on the west gable end and the east bay. It has steep old red tile roofs and is a large, L-shaped, low two-storey house facing south, with a long lower rear service wing at the northwest.
The south front has three windows and a five-bay timber verandah, with a central half-glazed flush-beaded door, French doors to the left, and a tall window to the right. The first floor features flush casement windows with four-lights, two-lights, and three-lights, now fitted with small-pane steel casements. The east bay extends down as a catslide-roofed front outshut. A very large chimney with four flues is located on the rear wall at the junction with the northwest wing. The east slope of the rear wing roof has been flattened, and the wallhead has been raised to insert windows at first floor level.
At the rear, there is an outshut to the main range that includes a stair in a tower with a swept roof at the angle of the wings. The large ground floor area to the east of the entrance hall features a broad axial beam with a hollow chamfer topped by a large roll-moulding. The drawing room to the west of the entrance has an exotic carved fire surround, possibly Javanese, and a wide flat cross-beam that is chamfered with hollow stops. A Jacobean oak arcaded overmantle has been reused, along with scratch-moulded panelling in the partition beside the sink in the south room of the rear wing. The interior also includes fluted pilasters between depressed round arches with cusped soffits, carved spandrels, and fluted impost pilasters. The structure features jowled posts, clasped-purlin roofs, and an unjowled mid-bay post by the stair.
Local climate
Hill and Coles Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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