Hand Side Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1980. Farmhouse.
Hand Side Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ruined-iron-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hand Side Farmhouse, Barn Close
- OS grid reference
- TL 232 125
- Coordinates
- 51.79802, -0.2148
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hand Side Farmhouse is an early 19th-century former farmhouse that was once used as the New Town hostel. The building is two storeys high and has a rendered exterior with a hipped Welsh slate roof featuring one brick chimney stack. The central gabled section projects and includes one window above a plain door. On the left side, there is one window above a three-light window. The right section has one modern larger window and one original window above another window. A small addition is located at the angle with the gable. The farmhouse has a brick and rendered plinth. The interior has undergone alterations, and new additions have been built recently, including a cut in the corner of the original building to the southeast.
Local climate
Hand Side 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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