Law Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Residential. 2 related planning applications.
Law Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- turning-crypt-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Law Hall Farmhouse, Law Hall Lane, King's Walden, SG4 8JH
- OS grid reference
- TL 164 220
- Coordinates
- 51.88527, -0.30943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Law Hall Farmhouse is a house dating to 1737, as indicated by iron letters on the front. It is constructed of red brick, darkened with lighter red dressings, featuring alternate blue headers to the arches and a Flemish bond pattern. The roof is steeply pitched, covered with old red tiles, and features projecting boarded eaves supported by brick corbels.
The house is nearly symmetrical in design, with five windows across the front, extending over two storeys and including a cellar level. The front elevation includes a plinth and plat band, with slightly recessed original cross-windows fitted with iron opening lights and rectangular leaded glazing. Segmental arches feature over the ground-floor and cellar openings. A run of seven steps leads to a two-panel front door set in a heavy frame, topped with a mullioned two-light fanlight under a moulded flat hood. Iron letters are positioned on either side of a window above the door. A single-storey wing originally extended from the north end, but its roofline is now only visible as a shadow. Internal gable chimneys stand at each end of the building.
The rear wall contains a plat band, interrupted by a cross-window to the central stairwell, one cross-window to the first floor, and a two-light mullioned window to the ground floor, all situated near the north end. The shadow of a steeply pitched roof indicates a single-storey wing at the front but extending to two storeys at the rear.
Local climate
Law Hall Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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