Japanese House at Fanhams Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Garden building.

Japanese House at Fanhams Hall

WRENN ID
lone-marble-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Garden building
Address
Japanese House at Fanhams Hall, Fanhams Hall Road, Wareside
OS grid reference
TL 369 157
Coordinates
51.82377, -0.01367
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Japanese House at Fanhams Hall is a garden building dating from 1900. It is part of a Japanese garden designed by Professor Suzuki and Mr. Inaka for R B and A E Page Croft. The structure features a timber frame, with some parts weatherboarded and a red pantile hipped roof, along with tiled pentice roofs on the lower verandah. This genuine Japanese tea house was imported and constructed under Japanese supervision. Known as 'Sei - Shin - tei', meaning 'House of the pure heart', it serves as a retreat separate from the main house. The building is two stories high and has verandahs surrounding both levels. It includes half-glazed wooden sliding screens with margin lights, while the lower sections at the ends are weatherboarded.

Local climate

Japanese 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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