Grassfield is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. House.
Grassfield
- WRENN ID
- deep-chapel-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grassfield, Rectory Lane, Shenley
- OS grid reference
- TL 199 013
- Coordinates
- 51.69834, -0.26538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grassfield is a house built in the mid-18th century, with extensions from the early to mid-19th century and further alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of brick and has a stucco finish, topped with a slate roof. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring a two-window front. The central entrance is framed by a later pedimented doorcase supported by fluted pilasters. The windows are glazing bar sashes set in shallow reveals. The house has a plinth and a plat band below a coped parapet, with a flat-topped gambrel roof and gable end parapets. The right side of the building includes one attic window, while there is a 20th-century dormer to the left of the centre. To the left, there is a two-storey extension from the 19th century, made of whitewashed brick and slightly set forward from the original structure, also featuring glazing bar sashes and a hipped roof. The rear of the building has been extended, but the interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Grassfield 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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