Bentley Heath Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. House.

Bentley Heath Farm House

WRENN ID
blind-obsidian-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hertsmere
Constituency
Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 August 1985
Type
House
Address
Bentley Heath Farm House, Bentley Heath Lane
OS grid reference
TQ 250 998
Coordinates
51.68323, -0.19264
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bentley Heath Farm House is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with a 19th-century extension. It is constructed of brick and has a slate roof. The building features a double-pile design with extensions and a converted barn at the rear. It stands two storeys high and has a five-bay front. The central entrance is accessed by steps leading up to a door that is framed by pilasters and topped with a modillioned cornice. The windows are glazing bar sashes with lightly moulded timber frames, and the ground floor has rubbed brick heads. There is a rendered plinth and a plat band that separates the storeys. The house has end stacks and gable end parapets, along with a two-bay return.

Inside, there is a moulded bridging beam on the ground floor. The roof features a through purlin and a collar beam truss. At the rear, there is a lower separately roofed 19th-century extension that connects to a 18th-century timber-framed and weatherboarded barn. This barn has four bays, a clasped purlin roof, and queen struts supporting the tie beams. The barn has been converted.

Local climate

Bentley Heath Farm House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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