Marsh Farm and Attached Courtyard of Outbuildings to West, Along Track 250 Metres from Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Marsh Farm and Attached Courtyard of Outbuildings to West, Along Track 250 Metres from Lane

WRENN ID
sunken-alcove-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Marsh Farm and Attached Courtyard of Outbuildings to West, Along Track 250 Metres from Lane, HP2 6HA
OS grid reference
TL 038 118
Coordinates
51.79601, -0.49528
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Marsh Farm is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, now a private house, with an attached courtyard of outbuildings to the west. The north parlour wing was added around 1600, and the building has been altered and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with brick casing and extensions, all covered in roughcast. The roofs are steep and made of old red tiles. The outbuildings are timber framed and generally have dark weatherboarding, with thin red brickwork at the northwest corner.

The house is two storeys tall and has an H-plan layout, facing east, with two-storey extensions to the northwest and southwest that connect to former farm buildings around a rear courtyard, which is now an enclosed garden. The windows are irregularly placed and consist of casement windows with small panes. The entrance is through a glazed door located under a porch in the middle of the east front, which has been extended forward to create a lobby and a new staircase, featuring a flatter-pitched front roof slope supported by the older roof structure.

Inside, the roof space has a wide-span collar-and-side-purlin roof with tall queen struts and smoke-blackened re-used rafters. The north parlour crosswing has an external chimney on the north side wall, which features a pedimented strapwork oval motif made of cut and moulded brickwork on its outer face.

Local climate

Marsh Farm and Attached Courtyard of Outbuildings to West, Along Track 250 Metres from Lane sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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