Farmers Boy Public House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
Farmers Boy Public House
- WRENN ID
- steep-sandstone-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Farmers Boy Public House, Langley, SG4 7PN
- OS grid reference
- TL 216 225
- Coordinates
- 51.88818, -0.23342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Farmers Boy Public House is a public house dating from the early 18th century, with the western end built in the early 19th century and a rear extension added in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame with roughcast, while the western end is also roughcast brick. It has steeply pitched roofs, covered with old red tiles at the front and slates at the rear and on the rear extensions.
This long, one-and-a-half-storey structure faces north and includes three large gabled porches at the front, alternating with four windows, and an additional window on the western part with a blind recess above. There are three gabled dormers that rise through the eaves, each fitted with two-light casements. The central porch now contains a three-light sash window. At the eastern end, there is a tiled lean-to extension, and at the rear, there is a one-and-a-half-storey gabled extension. The rear features shallow three-light lattice casements located under the eaves, above a 20th-century lean-to outshut.
Inside, the public house has exposed framed partitions and a floor structure arranged in a three-cell, lobby-entry plan, with an axial beam present only in the heated middle bay. The narrower end bays contain axial joists, and there is a cellar located beneath the eastern end.
Local climate
Farmers Boy Public House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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