Kettle Green Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Kettle Green Farm House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-tallow-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Kettle Green Farm House, Much Hadham
- OS grid reference
- TL 415 183
- Coordinates
- 51.84563, 0.0535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 16th and early 17th century timber-frame house. It was originally known as Kettlehall Farm House. The house has a deeply thatched roof, with a hipped form on the north side. The exterior is weatherboarded and plastered. It is two stories high, with two bays, and includes an earlier 19th-century lean-to addition on the north side, which has a thatched roof extending to the ground floor. There are two windows on the east side, featuring 3-light casements that open at the top. A large, cemented brick chimney stack is located on the south gable end. Inside, there are chamfered floor beams with run-out stops and a former bay or bays on the south side.
Local climate
Kettle Green Farm House 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 — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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