Whites Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.

Whites Farm House

WRENN ID
patient-flue-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 June 1987
Type
House
Address
Whites Farm House, Bell Lane, Nuthampstead, SG8 8ND
OS grid reference
TL 402 347
Coordinates
51.99325, 0.04165
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Whites Farm House is a timber-frame house dating from the early to mid-17th century, with extensions added in the 18th and 20th centuries. The house has a brick base and is weatherboarded, with a rendered plinth. It has a steeply pitched half-hipped thatched roof. Originally three bays wide, the front elevation features an original entrance that has been blocked. There are single and double 16-pane flush frame sash windows with hoodboards, and a small vertical casement window to the far right. Two dormers with three small-paned windows and eyebrow thatching are set into the roof. A brick stack, built in the 19th century, stands to the left of the centre. The left end has a three-light casement window and an attic horizontal sliding sash with exposed plates. At the rear is a short, two-storey addition with horizontal sliding sashes and a half-hipped roof. A 20th-century addition to the right end provides an entrance in a link to a cross-gabled block, constructed of brick and cement render with a tiled roof. Internally, features include ovolo-moulded bearers, stop-chamfered joists, a fireplace with a chamfered brick depressed arched surround, and a short 18th-century dogleg staircase with turned balusters.

Local climate

Whites 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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