Moor Farm House at Northwood Preparatory School is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1979. House.

Moor Farm House at Northwood Preparatory School

WRENN ID
white-steel-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Three Rivers
Constituency
South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Type
House
Address
Moor Farm House at Northwood Preparatory School, Sandy Lodge Lane, Batchworth, WD3 1LW
OS grid reference
TQ 082 938
Coordinates
51.63348, -0.43663
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Moor Farm House at Northwood Preparatory School is an early 19th-century house constructed of stock brick with a machine-tiled hipped roof. The building has a double depth plan and consists of three bays over two storeys. The central entrance features a panelled and glazed door with a semi-circular traceried fanlight set in an arched reveal, and there is a late 19th-century timber porch. The windows are 16-pane glazing bar sashes set in reveals with gauged brick flat arched heads, and the eaves are close. The house has two bay returns, with French windows and a stack on the left side. To the right, there is a blind first floor above a ground floor slate-roofed link to an outbuilding that is now a garage. The rear of the main house has 16-pane sashes and a blocked entrance. The right return features an entrance with a cambered head. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Moor Farm House at Northwood Preparatory School sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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