Ayot Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. A Tudor Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.

Ayot Farmhouse

WRENN ID
idle-solder-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Period
Tudor
Address
Ayot Farmhouse, Bibbs Hall Lane, Ayot St. Lawrence, AL6 9BY
OS grid reference
TL 192 167
Coordinates
51.8364, -0.27115
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ayot Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 16th or 17th century. It features a timber frame construction with its gable end facing the road. The ground floor is built of red brick, while the upper floor is weatherboarded. The roof is steep-pitched and covered with a mix of old tiles and machine-made tiles. The building has eight modern sash and casement windows, including a square two-storey gabled projection on the west side near the road. There is a modern extension on the south side.

Local climate

Ayot Farmhouse 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 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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