Farmhouse at Wakeley Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Farmhouse at Wakeley Farm
- WRENN ID
- knotted-lime-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Farmhouse at Wakeley Farm, Westmill, SG9 9NH
- OS grid reference
- TL 341 268
- Coordinates
- 51.92371, -0.05072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wakeley Farm is a farmhouse that consists of two houses, now combined into one. It dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century and was linked in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame that is roughcast, with an 18th-century red brick casing on the ground floor of the southern end bay, and a 19th-century grey brick link that includes a stair and front porch. The steep roofs are now covered with slate.
Originally, the two houses were built less than 2 meters apart for separate households to work the same farm. They are aligned facing east, with a three-cell central-chimney house at the southern end and a T-plan house to the north, which has a crosswing at its southern end that projects to the front and rear. The 19th-century gabled eastern porch connects the two houses, with the roof of the southern house extended to the north.
The farmhouse is two storeys high, with a storage attic in the crosswing of the northern part, featuring an external gable door at the rear. The eastern front is irregular, with three windows on each side of the porch. The southern bay has flush box sash windows with 6/6 panes, with two on each floor of the gable end. There is a single-light leaded casement aligned with the central chimney of the southern house, and a four-light leaded casement window above a triple sash window to the right and left of the porch. The northern part has two- and three-light similar windows, along with French windows on the ground floor.
The gabled grey brick porch has a slate roof, heavy cusped bargeboards, and a carved finial. The doorway features a gauged pointed arch with small side windows. There is a canted bay window with a hipped slate roof on the northern gable. At the rear, the northern house has a lateral chimney and an 8-light mullioned window that now serves as a screen in front of later glazing. Inside, the farmhouse has exposed beams, a double-curved brace in the ground floor of the southern part, a fireplace dating to around 1700 in the lateral stack of the northern part, and a 2-light ovolo-moulded 17th-century window frame in the northern house.
Local climate
Farmhouse at Wakeley 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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