Old Lordship Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. House.
Old Lordship Farm House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-sentry-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Lordship Farm House, Little Hadham Road, Much Hadham
- OS grid reference
- TL 428 203
- Coordinates
- 51.86386, 0.07301
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Lordship Farm House is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with a western front range added in the mid to late 18th century. The building is timber-framed, plastered, and features a slate mansard roof on the west side, while the rear north part has an old red tile roof.
The two-storey front has a central Doric porch supported by three-quarter columns, with a fluted frieze and a dentilled cornice. There are three windows with 6/6 sash frames and louvred shutters. The south garden front has similar sash windows, but with fluted friezes and dentil cornices on the ground floor. There is a 20th-century canted extension on the east side, which also features 6/6 sash windows.
The north elevation includes a large early 17th-century chimneystack with attached shafts. This section of the house was originally an open hall, which was floored over in the 17th century. It has chamfered and stopped floor beams and an exposed, sooted tie beam on the upper floor. The ground floor fireplace includes triangle-headed niches. The south ground floor has a well-preserved 18th-century interior, featuring a fluted dado, door, and main friezes, along with re-used oak panelling in the front hall.
Local climate
Old Lordship Farm House 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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