Southfield is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House.

Southfield

WRENN ID
late-chimney-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Southfield, 4, Hailey Lane, Hertford Heath
OS grid reference
TL 361 105
Coordinates
51.77746, -0.02836
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Southfield is a house built in 1895, originally serving as a master's house for Haileybury. It features red brick construction with a red tiled roof and is designed in an irregular L-shape, typical of the Queen Anne style. The house has two storeys and includes rounded gable parapets on the wing facing the road and on the stair tower at the angle of the main range.

A moulded brick floor band steps up twice over the door near the west corner, which is adorned with a moulded semi-circular hood and a moulded brick architrave surrounding a five-panel moulded door. The windows are boxed sash types, slightly recessed, with rubbed flat arches and keystones, each having four panes. There is a leaded stair window with mullions and transoms, and a bullseye window in the gable of the north wing. The first floor has a two-light sash window, while the ground floor features two narrow sash windows.

To the east, there are single-storey offices, and the garden front has both two-storey and one-storey bay windows. Southfield forms a group with No 2.

Local climate

Southfield 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 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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