Little Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1975. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Little Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallow-chapel-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Little Farmhouse, Highfield Lane, HP2 5JF
- OS grid reference
- TL 070 081
- Coordinates
- 51.76206, -0.45091
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Farmhouse is a 17th-century building, altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of timber frame with red brick facing, and has a tiled roof. The house is two storeys high with an attic, and features two gabled dormers. The windows are casement windows, with two lights on the first floor and three lights on the ground floor. A continuous beam runs across the first floor. A hipped gabled projection is at the rear. A 20th-century wing extends from the east side, with a pentice roof. The interior includes two inglenook fireplaces, a cellar beneath the parlour, and herringbone nogging visible in the east gable. Little Farmhouse forms a group with its barn.
Local climate
Little 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 78% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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