2 and 4, Main Road is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. House. 1 related planning application.

2 and 4, Main Road

WRENN ID
distant-hearth-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 June 1986
Type
House
Address
2 and 4, Main Road, Bramfield, SG14 2QJ
OS grid reference
TL 291 156
Coordinates
51.82449, -0.12684
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 2 and 4 Main Road are a pair of houses dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. They are constructed with a timber frame and brick infill, featuring cement render and roughcast, with the frame exposed at the front. The houses have a hipped thatched roof and consist of five bays with four windows across two storeys. The entrances are located at the centre of each dwelling, with plank doors that have moulded frames and small hoods above. The windows are two-light small pane casements, also with flush moulded frames and hoods. The visible frame shows small scantling, irregularly spaced studs, and passing tension braces on the first floor. There is a multiform axial ridge stack at the centre, which has been partly rebuilt, and the roughcast returns extend to the sides. At the rear, there is a catslide roof over a continuous lean-to outshut that is weatherboarded and has an entrance at the right end. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

2 and 4, 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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