Sidehill House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. House. 10 related planning applications.
Sidehill House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-soffit-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sidehill House, Stansted Hill, Much Hadham, SG10 6DS
- OS grid reference
- TL 431 185
- Coordinates
- 51.84732, 0.07717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sidhill House is a house dating back to the 16th century, with significant alterations in the mid-17th and mid-19th centuries. It is timber-framed and now clad in roughcast with imitation half-timbering. The roof is tiled, and the house features 19th-century brick chimneystacks with diagonal shafts. The house is arranged in an L shape.
The northeast elevation, facing the road, has two gabled dormers and ground floor windows with lozenge latticework. A 16th or 17th century four-centred arch door frame is located on the north side. The southwest elevation features a gable end with a curved bargeboard, a ground floor tiled bay window, tile-hung dormers and leaded casements. A 16th-century rear wing on the southwest side has a two-storey, southeast-facing bay window with leaded lights and imitation half-timbering.
The interior of the front range retains 17th-century floor beams. The central room has a good, mid-17th century plaster frieze approximately 40cm deep, featuring trailing vines, fruits, leaves, and an unusual spiral bottom moulding. The rear wing, originally separate from the front range and presumably a kitchen, has blackened 16th-century floor beams.
Local climate
Sidehill House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- 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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