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

Little Barwick Farm

WRENN ID
gaunt-doorway-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Little Barwick Farm, Barwick Ford, Thundridge
OS grid reference
TL 386 188
Coordinates
51.85071, 0.01143
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Barwick Farm is a house dating from the 17th century, which incorporates earlier work, with a late 17th-century extension to the west and a 19th-century rear wing. The main structure is timber-framed and plastered, while the west extension has exposed timber framing. It features steep old red tile roofs, half-hipped on the west extension, and an open porch at the west end. The L-shaped house faces north and is unusually wide, consisting of two storeys and an attic with a central chimney.

The former entrance into a lobby by the stack has been recently moved to the west end. There is a stair located behind the stack. The hall is situated to the east of the stack and has a larger fireplace and a door to the stair. The parlour is on the west side, with an unheated service room beyond it. An original fireplace can be found in the chamber above the hall. The north front features a painted brick plinth, with two windows on each floor of the main house, a small window replacing the former front door, and one window on each floor of the black and white lower west extension. The windows are two-light flush casements that have been renewed.

Inside, there is a moulded staircase with thick turned balusters, a flat four-centred brick arch leading to the first-floor fireplace, and a 19th-century fireplace in the attic. The west extension appears to have been constructed using reused timbers and likely served as a dairy with a bedroom above it.

Local climate

Little Barwick Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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