Farmhouse at Poplar 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 Poplar Farm

WRENN ID
gentle-moat-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1984
Type
House
Address
Farmhouse at Poplar Farm, Long Lane, Aston
OS grid reference
TL 268 241
Coordinates
51.90136, -0.15791
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The farmhouse at Poplar Farm is an early 18th century building, or possibly older, with some later alterations. The front and north end are constructed of red brick patterned with black headers, while the other sides are plastered. It features steep old red tile roofs. The house has a two-cell, two-storey layout with an end chimney plan, and a part with one and a half storeys at the south, which includes a lateral chimney on the front wall. There is a rear outshot with a catslide roof and a 20th-century dormer that has been raised off the rear roof slope. The front is asymmetrical, with two windows on each floor and a door that is off-centre to the left. The windows are 20th-century casements with a horizontal emphasis, fitted into the original openings with closer bricks next to the jambs. The north end has stepped corbelled kneelers leading to a brick gable parapet. Inside, there is a chimney on the north gable, while a later external chimney rises from the south gable of the lower south wing. Additionally, there is a 19th-century wall letterbox with 'VR' built into the pier at the southeast corner of the house.

Local climate

Farmhouse at Poplar Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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