Lucas' Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1952. House.
Lucas' Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- long-groin-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lucas' Farmhouse, Knebworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 208 214
- Coordinates
- 51.87856, -0.24626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lucas' Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century. It has a timber frame and is finished with roughcast. The building features a steeply pitched clasped purlin roof covered with plain tiles, and the gable end facing the road is plastered. The house is two storeys high and consists of three bays, following a lobby entrance plan. The entrance door is located at the right center and is situated below a red brick chimney stack with three joined square shafts. The door frame is moulded, and there is a flat hood supported by scrolled wood brackets. The front elevation includes three glazing bar casements. At the rear, there is a 17th-century gabled staircase tower at the far end, which has a small casement window on the first floor. Additionally, there is a rear lean-to that forms a catslide roof, along with a 17th or 18th-century lean-to on the road elevation.
Local climate
Lucas' 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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