Bury Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Farmhouse.

Bury Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tall-storey-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Bury Farmhouse, Church Street, Bovingdon
OS grid reference
TL 018 037
Coordinates
51.72362, -0.52619
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bury Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the early 17th century, with a west range from that period and an east rear extension from the later 17th century. The building was extended to the north and had brick casing with pilasters added in the early to mid-19th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill that is exposed at the east of the rear wing, and the exterior is finished in white painted brick with steep old red tiled roofs.

The farmhouse is designed in a Z-plan and consists of two storeys and an attic, facing west. The early 17th-century west range has two windows and a large internal chimney that rises through the front roofslope. The parallel-roofed east range has exposed framing on its east side, a large external chimney at the south end of that wall, and a single-storey brick and tile kitchen that projects east from its north end, which was added in the 19th century.

The west fronts of both ranges are adorned with brick pilasters and three-light casement windows. The entrance is located in a lean-to porch at the northwest angle. Inside, there is good exposed timbering, including jowled posts, a clasped-purlin roof with collar trusses, and chamfered cross-beams in the west range, as well as axial beams with bar-stops in the east extension.

Local climate

Bury Farmhouse 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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