Austen's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Austen's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- western-floor-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1958
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Austen's Farmhouse, Twitchell's Lane, Chalfont St. Giles, HP9 2RA
- OS grid reference
- SU 978 920
- Coordinates
- 51.61868, -0.58744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Austen's Farmhouse is a 16th-century timber-framed building located on the east side of Twitchell's Lane in Chalfont St Giles. The ground floor features brick infill, while the first floor has plastered infill. The farmhouse has an old tiled roof and a crosswing to the west. It stands two storeys high and includes curved struts to the first floor, with a centre oversailing on a coved cornice. The windows are mostly modern casement types, and there is one original chimney stack alongside a modern one. At the rear, there is a modern two-storey range that runs at right angles to the main building.
Local climate
Austen's Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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