Oakleys Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Oakleys Farmhouse

WRENN ID
calm-gravel-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 May 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Oakleys Farmhouse, Maiden Street, Weston, SG4 7DQ
OS grid reference
TL 266 301
Coordinates
51.95586, -0.15834
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oakleys Farmhouse is a timber-frame building with a front range dating to the 17th century and a later 17th-century brick rear wing. A 19th-century brick front was added, and a northeast kitchen extension was built in the 1980s. The front is timber-framed on brick sills, with roughcast plastering, while the rear wing features red brick in an irregular bond. The house has steep red tile roofs. It is T-shaped and situated at the rear of a farmyard, facing south on rising ground.

The front range is two storeys and three windows wide, with a central entrance. It has flush, leaded casement windows, with five lights to the left of a door featuring five panels, the upper three fielded and the lower two flush-leaded. A staircase projects beside the southwest corner chimney stack. The two-storey rear wing was originally built into a slope, with access at the first-floor level and a cellar below, now excavated. The rear wing has a plat-band and a tumbled brick gable parapet, with two windows on the north side to each floor, and a single window higher in the gable.

Local climate

Oakleys Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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