Farmhouse at Deas Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1984. House.

Farmhouse at Deas Farm

WRENN ID
deep-shingle-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1984
Type
House
Address
Farmhouse at Deas Farm, Whempstead Road, Benington
OS grid reference
TL 311 220
Coordinates
51.88202, -0.09568
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Deas Farm is a 15th-century open hall house that underwent modifications in the early 17th century, with a northern crosswing re-roofed along the axis of the house in the late 17th century. The building features a timber frame covered in roughcast and has an old red tile roof. It is one and a half storeys tall, with a three-cell layout and a central chimney located a third of the way from the south end, along with a 19th-century external gable chimney at the north end. Originally, the interior was open to the roof, consisting of a hall, a service room to the south, and a parlour to the north, which is framed transversely with two bays. The parlour has a four-light diamond mullioned window on its rear wall. The central chimney is situated at the lower end of the hall, with a winding stair accessed from the hall. The west front has four windows, including two gabled dormers positioned in the middle and at the south end. Most windows are flush casement, except for a flush box sash window to the left of the door. The red brick chimney is in a T-plan. Inside, the walls are exposed with close-studding, and there is a chamfered axial beam in the hall supported by the fireplace lintel. The narrow service end features exposed axial joists at a lower floor level, while the parlour has thin exposed joists. The rear wallplate at the south end shows an edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts. The hall roof has a single purlin on each slope, while the north end, which was re-roofed later, has two purlins.

Local climate

Farmhouse at Deas Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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