Hawkshead Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. House.

Hawkshead Farm

WRENN ID
stranded-minaret-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1983
Type
House
Address
Hawkshead Farm, Hawkshead Lane, North Mymms
OS grid reference
TL 234 031
Coordinates
51.71367, -0.2139
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hawkshead Farm is a house, formerly a farmhouse, that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with a northwest wing added in the mid-17th century. The building is cased in red brick and features a front range that was constructed in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It underwent alterations in the late 19th century and is now painted brick. The property has plain tile roofs on two parallel ranges, with the rear roof being taller and adorned with some fish scale tiles.

A central red brick stack from the 17th century has four square joined shafts. The front of the building has three windows, with the outer bays featuring late 19th-century gables and two-storey canted sash windows topped with slate roofs. The central sash window on the first floor is recessed and has a wooden lintel. The building is accented by brick dentilled eaves all around, and the eastern elevation includes dummy windows. Inside, a ground floor room in the northwest wing has a fireplace with a high chamfered lintel and a chamfered ceiling beam that features a mid-17th-century stop.

Local climate

Hawkshead Farm 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 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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