Farmhouse at High Trees Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Farmhouse at High Trees Farm
- WRENN ID
- hushed-pediment-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Farmhouse at High Trees Farm, Ardeley, SG2 7BB
- OS grid reference
- TL 326 254
- Coordinates
- 51.91137, -0.07314
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Trees Farm is a 16th-century farmhouse that was later heightened, had a floor inserted, and a rear lateral hall chimney built in the late 17th century. It underwent renovations in the late 19th century and around 1942. The house is constructed of timber frame and roughcast, topped with a steep old red tile roof. It has an L-shaped plan and faces south, with a rear gabled wing at the northwest. The building originally functioned as a single-storey open hall house, possibly with a two-storey wing to the west. The front is asymmetrical, featuring three windows on each floor and a gabled porch located a third of the way from the eastern end. The windows are flush 2-light casements with painted margins. There is an external gable chimney on the eastern side and a later internal gable chimney on the western side. Inside, the structure includes jowled posts, a wall plate, and cut tie-beams from the older construction. A 17th-century rear door with three vertical panels, the middle one being moulded, is also present.
Local climate
Farmhouse at High Trees 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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