Coach House at Old Westmill Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1982. Coach house.
Coach House at Old Westmill Farm
- WRENN ID
- open-copper-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1982
- Type
- Coach house
- Address
- Coach House at Old Westmill Farm, Westmill Lane, Ickleford
- OS grid reference
- TL 171 307
- Coordinates
- 51.9631, -0.2965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Coach House at Old Westmill Farm is an 18th-century building constructed of red brick with chequered red and black brick side walls, topped by a steep hipped roof that is now slated. A wrought iron weathervane sits at the southern end of the ridge. This large, symmetrical coach house stands two stories tall on the east side of the lane, facing west towards the farm courtyard.
The western front features a central bay that projects forward, adorned with a pediment and a semi-circular window in the tympanum. Below this is a segmentally headed coach entry with a pair of wooden doors. To the left, or north, there is a segmentally headed door and a window on the ground floor; the door includes ventilator slits. The upper floor, or loft, has a loft door to the right and a two-light leaded casement window to the left. On the right side, or south of the central portion, there is a flat-arched vehicular doorway with wooden doors on the ground floor, along with a flight of steps leading to the loft door, which has a two-light window to its right. The roof extends to form a pentice at the rear over an open-sided lean-to hay store.
Local climate
Coach House at Old Westmill Farm 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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