Farmhouse at Bridgefoot Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. Farmhouse.

Farmhouse at Bridgefoot Farm

WRENN ID
stubborn-barrel-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 April 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Farmhouse at Bridgefoot Farm, the Ford, Little Hadham
OS grid reference
TL 433 211
Coordinates
51.87044, 0.0806
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The farmhouse at Bridgefoot Farm is a 16th-century building that stands two storeys high and is constructed with timber framing and plaster. It is oriented east-west, with its gable facing the road. Originally, the northern side of the house featured a jetty, but this has since been altered. A late 16th-century extension to the west is unjettied and also two storeys tall. On the south side, there is a shallow gabled stair tower from the 18th or 19th century, likely replacing an older service wing, which involved some internal reconfiguration. The roof is steep and covered with old red tiles, featuring gabled ends. A central chimney is located one-third from the eastern end, with a former stair adjacent on the north side. The eastern room and the middle room have chamfered axial beams, with the middle room's beams offset to the south to accommodate the former jetty on the north. There are mortices for partition studs in the cross beam near the western end of the middle room, which has been extended to the west into what was once a larger room, now divided into a larder and a service room. There is also a single-storey axial extension to the west, which is plastered and tiled. Inside, the farmhouse features extensive exposed timber framework with close studding and tension braces, evidence of former window positions, heavy jowled posts, and a clasped purlin roof with wind braces. The windows are three-light, early 18th-century designs with iron casements.

Local climate

Farmhouse at Bridgefoot Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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