Wandon End Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Farmhouse.
Wandon End Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sharp-zinc-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wandon End Farmhouse, King's Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 133 224
- Coordinates
- 51.88904, -0.3548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wandon End Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the 16th century, featuring a crosswing. The hall range was altered in the 17th century, while the eastern range and the brick facing on the south side of the crosswing were added in the early 18th century, with further alterations made in the 19th century. The building has a timber frame that is roughcast, with red brick on the ground floor, the 18th-century wing, and the south front. It has steep old red tile roofs.
The farmhouse is an L-shaped, two-storey structure that originally faced east. It has a taller gabled south wing extending to the rear and a short hall range with a rear outshut beneath a catslide roof extension. A new entrance front was created on the south side of the crosswing when a two-storey hipped brick wing was built against the east front, obscuring the crosswing and part of the hall range. This wing features a tall wallhead chimney with two linked square shafts on its east side and a large stair window to the right. The farmhouse generally has flush casement windows, but the south front includes 19th-century sash windows with two-over-two panes. There is a large internal chimney at the junction of the hall range and the crosswing, as well as a large external chimney on the north side of the west part of the crosswing.
Local climate
Wandon End 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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