Dog Kennel Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Farmhouse.
Dog Kennel Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- keen-rubblework-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dog Kennel Farmhouse, Lilleybottom Road, Offley
- OS grid reference
- TL 121 259
- Coordinates
- 51.92039, -0.37047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dog Kennel Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse, believed to have been built in 1776, with later 19th-century alterations. The building is constructed of red brick, featuring a chequered pattern with black headers in Flemish bond, and is topped with steep old red tile roofs. This large, two-storey, double-pile house faces south and has projections at the rear. The west side door is accessed through a low extension. The south front has four first-floor windows with segmental arches and two-light cast iron lattice casements. To the left of the door, there is a canted bay window on the ground floor.
Local climate
Dog Kennel Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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