Farmhouse at Dukes Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.
Farmhouse at Dukes Farm
- WRENN ID
- odd-marble-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Farmhouse at Dukes Farm, Slough Road, High Wych, CM21 0LR
- OS grid reference
- TL 453 167
- Coordinates
- 51.83083, 0.10752
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, likely dating from the 16th century or earlier. It originally comprised three bays, with a cross passage leading through the centre, and a service room on the west side. In the 19th century, a two-story extension was added to the rear (north side), resulting in a widened roofline. The original timber frame is still visible, with some ashlar remaining on the gables. The front of the building is timber-framed and plaster-lined, with brick casing and modern pargetting. The steep roof is covered with old red tiles, although the rear section has a flatter pitch reflecting the reused structural elements of an earlier, clasped-purlin roof.
Inside, the original layout included three rooms in a line, with the cross passage beside an undivided service room. A large chimney backs onto the cross passage, serving a two-bay hall with stop-chamfered spine beams and a run-out stops, along with an axial beam. Evidence suggests the south side of the house was originally jettied. A blocked door in the exposed oak stud wall leads from the parlour on the east end into the north extension. Other features include a single-story service room, an external gable chimney with an oven on the west side, and a 19th-century external gable chimney on the east. The interior retains exposed timbering, including large jowled posts on the first floor, and a fine decorative floor structure above the middle room.
Local climate
Farmhouse at Dukes Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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