Pursley Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. A C17 House. 7 related planning applications.
Pursley Farm House
- WRENN ID
- final-pier-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pursley Farm House, 2, London Road, Shenley, WD7 9EN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 194 999
- Coordinates
- 51.68585, -0.27329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pursley Farm House is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, which was extended and altered around 1840. It features a timber frame that has been extended in brick, with a rendered and whitewashed exterior and tiled roofs. The original layout was L-shaped, with a three-bay front and a one-bay rear wing. The house is two storeys high with an attic. The main facade faces the road and has a central entrance under a timber porch with a hipped, tiled roof. The windows are 19th-century flush frame architraved sashes.
On the right side, there is a later ground floor canted bay window, a first-floor sash window, and an attic casement, all beneath a bargeboarded gable. At the rear right, there is a two-storey 19th-century block with mixed window styles. A tall chimney stack is located at the back of the right 'parlour' bay. The original wing has one-storey rear extensions, with some sashes at the rear being flush frame and others set in reveals.
To the left, there is a separately roofed mid-19th-century block that presents a three-bay front to the yard, featuring a central entrance in a gabled porch, sashes with cambered heads, and twin bargeboarded gables, with a gable at the left end. There are two tall stacks in the valley where this 19th-century block meets the earlier building. Inside, the house has stopped chamfered ground floor binding beams and exposed joists, along with a c.1840 staircase with iron balusters and a fireplace in the parlour.
Local climate
Pursley 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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