Farmhouse at White Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. Farmhouse.
Farmhouse at White Farm
- WRENN ID
- outer-casement-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Farmhouse at White Farm, Long Lane, Aston
- OS grid reference
- TL 268 242
- Coordinates
- 51.90222, -0.15709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The farmhouse at White Farm is a house dating from the 16th century, with rearrangements made in the 18th century. The date '1723' is painted above a new door on the west side. It features a timber frame on a flint sill wall with brick corners, and is roughcast with a band of red tile hanging that is scalloped on the west wall of the wing and the east gable. The steeply pitched roofs are now covered with slate and have a red tile ridge. There is an old red brick central chimney with two thick diagonal square shafts.
This one and a half storey T-plan house faces south and includes a hall range, a west crosswing, and a central chimney at the junction of the wing, with a lobby entrance. The main entrance was later moved to the middle of the west side of the wing facing the road, which features a boarded door in a heavy frame, flanked by a three-light and a two-light window, along with gabled dormers at the eaves. There is a sash window with 8/8 panes on the east side.
Inside, the ground floor west room has very heavy beams over a wide fireplace and to the ceiling, along with wide wall posts. There is a 17th-century cupboard in the east room, and the doors have strap hinges on lugs. The architraves feature cyma mouldings, and the doors have hand-worked panels. On the first floor, some floorboards are 12 inches wide, and there are generally very heavy timbers in the framing.
Local climate
Farmhouse at White 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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