Farmhouse at Rossway Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Farmhouse at Rossway Home Farm

WRENN ID
far-slate-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Farmhouse at Rossway Home Farm, Wigginton, HP4 3TZ
OS grid reference
SP 958 073
Coordinates
51.75669, -0.61285
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The farmhouse at Rossway Home Farm is a building dating from the 16th century, with an east crosswing and a western part that was rebuilt in the 17th century. This western section features a large internal chimney and a lobby entrance. The western wing has a brick front added in the 18th century, while the rest of the building is also brick fronted. A porch was added, and the roof was altered at the rear to extend over a rear outshut after the 1841 Tithe Map. There is a small east extension added around 1984. The structure is timber framed, with brick fronting, roughcast, and painted brick. The front roof slope is steep and covered in old red tiles, while the rear slope is flatter and slated.

This two-storey house faces south into a northern yard and features two first-floor three-light casement windows and four ground-floor two-light casement windows, all with segmental arches. The middle of the front has a brick gabled porch leading to a boarded door, with a small central window above the porch and a straight joint for the full height of the brickwork to the left of the porch. An elaborate late 17th-century red brick chimney with staggered square shafts and a projecting pointed nib is located on the east side, topped with an oversailing moulded cap. Inside, there is exposed framing, an axial beam in the floor of the western part, jowled posts, wide-spaced wall framing, a clasped-purlin roof, and mortices for wind-braces that have now been removed from the eastern wing.

Local climate

Farmhouse at Rossway Home Farm 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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