Castle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Castle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- over-mantel-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Castle Farmhouse, Thorley Lane, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 4BN
- OS grid reference
- TL 464 201
- Coordinates
- 51.8603, 0.12581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Farmhouse is a building that dates back to the 16th century or earlier and features a timber frame. The exterior has been modern rendered and is topped with an old red tile roof. The farmhouse is two storeys high and includes a modern door and windows, along with a modern cross wing on the south side. Inside, there are several bays of heavy oak timber frame. To the north, there is a 17th-century barn that is weatherboarded and has a corrugated iron roof. This barn is an important feature located at the junction of Thorley Lane and Great Hadham Road.
Local climate
Castle Farmhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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