Hardwick House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.

Hardwick House

WRENN ID
gilded-kitchen-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1987
Type
House
Address
Hardwick House, Eardisland, HR6 9HE
OS grid reference
SO 405 574
Coordinates
52.21209, -2.87109
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hardwick House is a house that incorporates former stables, dating from the 15th century, with extensions from the 16th and 17th centuries, and some alterations from the 18th century and late 20th century. The building features a timber frame with painted brick and rendered infill, topped with a concrete tile roof. It has an L-shaped plan, with limbs extending to the south and west. The western limb contains remnants of a 15th-century cruck open hall, while a former stable block extends to the north from the northeast corner.

The north front includes a gabled cross-wing to the left, which is partly obscured by the former stable block. The main range is two storeys high and has four three-light casements above six windows, most of which are two-light casements. The entrance, located to the left of the centre, features a 20th-century gabled and tiled porch with a 20th-century ledged and boarded door. The framing consists of four square panels high in the former stable, while most of the rest has two square panels high to the first floor. Inside, there are at least three cruck trusses, which are heavily smoke blackened in the roof space.

Local climate

Hardwick House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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