Old Hall, Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1980. House. 10 related planning applications.
Old Hall, Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-facade-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Hall, Farm Cottage, Ayot St. Lawrence, AL6 9BW
- OS grid reference
- TL 198 167
- Coordinates
- 51.83613, -0.26197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Hall, now a farm cottage, is a house dating from the 17th century, with timber framing that was later re-faced with red brick in the 18th century. It is two storeys high. A chimney stack runs along the ridge of the roof, featuring four joined hexagonal shafts. There are three windows, each with a cambered relieving arch. Two of the windows are modern casements, and one is a dummy window. The northwest gable end displays some earlier brickwork and flint.
Local climate
Old Hall, Farm Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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