Honours Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Honours Farm

WRENN ID
hushed-baluster-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Honours Farm, Newhouse Road, Bovingdon, HP3 0EJ
OS grid reference
TL 012 039
Coordinates
51.72539, -0.53518
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Honours Farm is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house. It dates back to the 16th century, with the west bay added in the early 17th century, and the east bay was raised to two storeys in 1972. The structure features a timber frame resting on a red brick sill, with the front covered in red brick and the ground floor at the rear also in red brick. The upper part of the rear wall has red brick infill to the exposed frame, while the west gable end is weatherboarded. The northeast outshut has flint rubble walls, and the building is topped with steep old red tile roofs.

The house is long, two storeys high, and has four windows facing south, set back from the road. It features three-light wooden casement windows with leaded glazing, which have been renewed. There is a small gable over the upper window in the lower east part. A half-glazed door leads into the east bay of the original two-storey, two-cell house, which has an internal-chimney plan. This section includes a four-flue chimney that extends to the front wall, with a staircase located to the north of it against the rear wall.

Inside, the house has axial floor beams with hollow stops to the chamfers and squared joists, similar to those in the 17th-century west bay. The walls include curved braces and a shutter groove for an unglazed window on the first floor at the rear. The structure features jowled posts and a clasped-purlin roof with curved wind-braces and strutted-collar trusses. The walls have wide-spaced studs. Additionally, there is a cast iron Boxmoor grazing rights plaque numbered 183, which is said to have originally had two plaques as it represented two properties at the time of their issue in the 19th century.

Local climate

Honours Farm 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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