Home Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. A C19 House. 2 related planning applications.
Home Farm House
- WRENN ID
- noble-span-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Home Farm House, Aldenham, WD6 3AZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 171 960
- Coordinates
- 51.65135, -0.30843
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Farm House is a house built between 1879 and 1881 by W. Butterfield for H. H. Gibbs. It features polychrome brick with sham timber framing and tile hanging, with a roof that is partly old tiled and partly machine tiled. The house is designed in the Domestic Revival Style and has two storeys.
The front of the house is asymmetrical, with a full-height entrance porch located to the right of the center. The entrance has a chamfered surround set in a 4-centred relieving arch. The upper stage has a diagonally set brick course, and below the sham timber framed first floor, there are two small mullioned sash windows. The gable features decorative timbers that jet out on corbels and a cusped bargeboard.
On the left side of the ground floor, there is a two-light sash window with a stone sill and a flat arched head. The right bay has a similar design but includes a narrow one-light sash. On the first floor, the left side has a sham timber frame over a stone course, while the right side showcases decorative tile hanging with a hipped roof and a gablet. The left return features a ground floor double sash window with black brick patterning, and the first floor has a sash window in a sham timber frame, with corbels supporting the gable and a cusped bargeboard.
At the rear, there are two stacks on the main ridge, with the right stack having stone offsets and caps, while the left stack is simpler. The right return has tile hanging on the first floor. There is a gabled wing at the rear, connected by a one-storey link that was extended forward in the 20th century to form a square dairy. This section features black brick patterning, clasping brick buttresses at the angles, and intermediate straight buttresses. It has two slit windows with stained glass in each bay, a stone course at sill level, and a stone cornice. The pyramidal roof is topped with a louvred sham timber framed lantern and a wrought iron finial. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Home Farm House 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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