Austrian House at Fanhams Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Garden building.
Austrian House at Fanhams Hall
- WRENN ID
- secret-fireplace-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden building
- Address
- Austrian House at Fanhams Hall, Fanhams Hall Road, Wareside
- OS grid reference
- TL 369 157
- Coordinates
- 51.82364, -0.01466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Austrian House at Fanhams Hall is a garden building dating from around 1901. It was exhibited at the Paris Exhibition of 1900 before being obtained by R B Page Croft and re-erected at this location. The structure features a timber frame with infill, a low-pitched hipped upper roof that extends to the sides with a steeper pitch and a decorative edge. It stands one and a half storeys tall and has an external stair at the rear. The walls are made of moulded edged boards that fill the spaces between the uprights. The windows are adorned with vigorous baroque surrounds and louvred shutters. The front of the building has a galleried upper section with painted peasant figures forming the balustrade above a cornice at floor level. There is a door on the left and a window on the right below, with a moulded door frame that has decorative edges to the hood. The door itself is a two-panel design featuring a decorative pattern of radial boarding, nail-heads, and decorative ironwork.
Local climate
Austrian House at Fanhams Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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