Legggatts Farmhouse, and Leggatts Cottages, Numbers 1 and 2 is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Farmhouse, cottages.
Legggatts Farmhouse, and Leggatts Cottages, Numbers 1 and 2
- WRENN ID
- blind-nave-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottages
- Address
- Legggatts Farmhouse, and Leggatts Cottages, Numbers 1 and 2, King's Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 165 245
- Coordinates
- 51.90737, -0.30717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leggatts Farmhouse and Leggatts Cottages, Numbers 1 and 2, are two linked farmhouses located in Kings Walden, dating from the 16th century, with later alterations in the 17th century and further changes to the eastern house in the mid-19th century. The timber frame is only exposed on the rear gable of the crosswing of the western house, which features red brick infill panels. The front of this house is encased in red brick above a stucco base, with a roughcast first floor on the crosswing and a low rear extension to the north that includes a dark weatherboarded outhouse. The eastern house is stuccoed. The western house has a steep old red tile roof, while the eastern house has steep roofs covered in slate.
The two houses are two storeys tall and arranged in an L-shape, linked in echelon and facing south. The eastern house, known as Leggatts Farmhouse, has a hall range with a crosswing projecting to the rear and a small 19th-century brick wing built at the rear angle, parallel to the hall range. There are internal chimneys in both the wing and hall range. The southern front features three three-light casement windows in the hall range, with a door and two sash windows on the ground floor beneath a lean-to verandah. The gabled wing on the left has a canted bay window and casement windows on the first floor and attic.
The western house has a short hall range and a gabled crosswing extending to the rear, with a cellar beneath the eastern part of the hall range. There is a tall brick chimney at the junction of the wings and an entrance by the stack. The rear outshut is attached to the hall. The southern front includes a small two-light casement window above the door and a three-light window to the right on each floor, along with a two-light window at the southern end of the wing on each floor. There is a doorway on the western side of the wing leading to Number 2. Inside the western house, there is a winding staircase with a heavy moulded handrail.
Local climate
Legggatts Farmhouse, and Leggatts Cottages, Numbers 1 and 2 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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