Farmhouse at Startop Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Farmhouse at Startop Farm
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-barrel-gilt
- 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 Startop Farm, Lower Icknield Way, Tring Rural, HP23 4LL
- OS grid reference
- SP 918 140
- Coordinates
- 51.81761, -0.66909
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farmhouse at Startop Farm, dating from the early 16th century, originally part of a hall house that extended to the north. It was converted into a separate house with a northern catslide outshut in the 17th or 18th century, and a single-storey west extension was added in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame that is roughcast over a black painted plinth, with red tile hanging on the west end and painted brick on the ground floor to the south. The roof is steep and covered with red tiles, while the dark weatherboarded west extension has a slate roof.
This two-storey and attic structure has two bays and was formerly a crosswing with a jetty at the east end, now facing south. The front has a sash window on the ground floor with 9/9 panes, and to the right is a boarded door with a rectangular fanlight and a flat hood supported by brackets. A large projecting chimney with two flues, rebuilt after an accident in the 1940s, is located to the right of the door. There are attic windows at the gable ends, and the east gable features decorative brackets at the ends of the wall plates. Inside, the frame is exposed, showcasing jowled and chamfered posts, collar and queen-strut trusses, a clasped-purlin roof with straight wind-braces, and straight tension braces along with wall framing on the ground floor of the north wall.
Local climate
Farmhouse at Startop Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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