6, Main Road is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Former village school, house, shop. 2 related planning applications.

6, Main Road

WRENN ID
tall-corbel-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 June 1986
Type
Former village school, house, shop
Address
6, Main Road, Bramfield, SG14 2QJ
OS grid reference
TL 291 156
Coordinates
51.82423, -0.12695
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 6 Main Road is a former village school, now serving as a house and shop, built around 1850 and enlarged in 1869. The building is constructed from yellow stock brick with white brick dressings and features a thatched roof in the cottage orné style. It is one storey with an attic and has a T-shaped ridge. The front has two bays, with the left bay slightly projecting and featuring a steeply pitched gable. The ground floor includes a six-light mullion and transom hollow moulded lattice light metal casement with a chamfered white brick surround, while the first floor has similar two-light casements. The building has a pierced wavy bargeboard. The right bay contains similar two-light casements and an eyebrow thatch to the attic. There is a later porch at the centre front, which has a plank and muntin door with a four-centred arched head.

To the left of the main range, there is a cross axial stack with four chamfered shafts and a common capping. The right gable end features a porch towards the front with an entrance to the shop, a chamfered four-centred arch, and a casement towards the rear with a gauged brick flat arched head. There is also a truncated stack and wavy bargeboards. The left return has a blind horizontal panel towards the front, two-light casements, and a two-light gabled dormer with wavy bargeboards. An extruded stack towards the rear has two shafts. The rear gable end also has wavy bargeboards. Extending to the rear right is a lower addition with a slate roof and two-light small pane casements, along with further one-storey slate roofed additions. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its group value.

Local climate

6, Main Road 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 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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