The Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1983. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.

The Homestead

WRENN ID
fallow-vault-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 January 1983
Type
House
Address
The Homestead, St Johns Lane, Great Amwell, SG12 9SN
OS grid reference
TL 371 124
Coordinates
51.79433, -0.01299
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Homestead is an early 18th-century house, remodelled in 1887 by R W Mylne. The modern glazed link to the eastern extension is not of special interest. It is a one-storey timber-frame building, with a low brick sill wall, plastered and colourwashed. The roof is steeply pitched, clad in old red tiles, and half-hipped to the south. A large red brick gable chimney is located at the north, featuring two diamond chimney shafts. A small gabled wing at the northwest has a bullseye window set within a polychrome brick parapeted gable, matching a similar gable at the rear of Filmer Cottage. A catslide roof over the western garage incorporates two small gabled dormers. The house is part of a group alongside Filmer Cottage, near the church, in the centre of the Conservation Area.

Local climate

The Homestead 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • 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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