West End Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. House.

West End Farm

WRENN ID
fossil-parapet-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1988
Type
House
Address
West End Farm, St. Paul's Walden
OS grid reference
TL 165 218
Coordinates
51.88299, -0.30876
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

West End Farm is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house. It dates back to the 16th century or earlier and originally featured an open hall house with an east crosswing. Around 1600, a floor and chimney were added to the hall, and the building underwent renovations with a brick casing on the front in the late 19th century. A convincing traditional timber-framed northwest rear wing was added in the 20th century, which incorporates an older stair tower. The timber frame is cased in painted brick, while the rear extension has an exposed timber frame. The house has steep old red tile roofs, hipped at the single-storey extension on the east end. It is two storeys tall and three windows wide, facing south. The gabled east wing projects out to the rear, and there is a large internal chimney located a third of the way from the west end, with a lobby entrance plan. To the left of the entrance, there are two-light casement windows on each floor, while the right side and the wing feature three-light casements. Inside, the house has exposed timbers, a clasped-purlin roof with collars and long curved wind-braces, straight tension braces in the walls, and moulded plank doors. Ovolo moulded windows were inserted in place of older ones around 1600.

Local climate

West End Farm 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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