Croxley Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1951. A C16 House. 2 related planning applications.

Croxley Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tilted-thatch-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Three Rivers
Constituency
South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 July 1951
Type
House
Address
Croxley Hall Farmhouse, Laverock Lane, Batchworth, WD3 3BQ
OS grid reference
TQ 070 945
Coordinates
51.63953, -0.4546
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Croxley Hall Farmhouse is a house that dates from the late 16th century but was almost entirely rebuilt in the mid-19th century. Some original timber framing remains, along with early red brick, while the rebuild features stock brick. The house has tiled roofs and is likely to have originally consisted of a hall with a parlour wing, which was rebuilt and extended. It has two storeys and an attic.

The entrance is located in a gabled porch on the left side, featuring a four-centred arched head and a cusped bargeboard. Further to the left, there is a six-light casement window on the ground floor and a three-light casement window above, both with cambered heads. On the right side, there is an eight-light ground floor casement with leaded panes and a cambered head, along with two three-light casements on the first floor. The right bay projects slightly and has a gable facing the front, with two eight-light casements and an oculus in the attic. A large cross axial stack is located to the left, possibly at the original end of the house, and the roof is half hipped on the left side.

The right return features a massive original red brick external stack in English bond, which has an arched opening for a window into the parlour, offsets, and three diagonal shafts, although it is partially truncated. The entrance is towards the rear and includes a timber porch with ornamented panels at the base. The left return has cambered heads on three-light casements, and there is a rendered first floor addition. At the rear, to the right of the two central bays, the house has red brick with exposed timber framing on the first floor, along with French windows and a three-light casement on the first floor. The projecting gabled wing to the left has an English bond red brick base, and to the right, a 19th-century wing projects further with a gable end stack.

Inside, there is a late 16th-century or early 17th-century panelled parlour.

Local climate

Croxley Hall Farmhouse 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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