Holly Bush Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. Farmhouse.
Holly Bush Farm
- WRENN ID
- calm-hall-holly
- 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
- Holly Bush Farm, Frithsden, Nettleden with Potten End
- OS grid reference
- TL 015 099
- Coordinates
- 51.7792, -0.52966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Bush Farm is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house. It originated as a late medieval open-hall house and features a late 17th-century central chimney and crosswing, along with a late 18th-century parallel west crosswing. The building underwent brick casing and renovation in the early 19th century. The structure is timber-framed and cased in red brick, with some random blue bricks, and the late 18th-century crosswing is decorated with blue headers. The roofs are steep and covered with old red tiles, featuring overhanging verges.
The house has an asymmetrical design with 2 storeys and an attic on the west part and 1½ storeys on the east part, forming a T-plan that faces south. The west part has two gables, while the east part has two gabled dormers at the eaves. There is a projecting porch with a catslide roof in the middle of the façade. The building has four windows, which are flush casement windows with leaded glazing. A large cruciform brick chimney with a corbelled cap is prominent, along with a smaller later chimney on the east gable.
Inside, there is a good early 18th-century panelled room to the west of the stack, featuring filleted ovolo moulding on the large panels and a fire surround with a reeded keystone. The layout follows a lobby-entry plan with a staircase rising behind the stack from the east room, which serves as a hall and kitchen.
Local climate
Holly Bush Farm 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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