The Old Farmhouse at St Edmund's College (Rc) (140 Metres to South West of Main Building) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Farmhouse at St Edmund's College (Rc) (140 Metres to South West of Main Building)

WRENN ID
winter-floor-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1967
Type
House
Address
The Old Farmhouse at St Edmund's College (Rc) (140 Metres to South West of Main Building), SG11 1DS
OS grid reference
TL 370 219
Coordinates
51.87945, -0.01014
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Farmhouse at St Edmund's College is a house dating from the early 17th century. It features a timber frame set on a red brick sill, with roughcast at the rear and 19th-century red brick diagonal nogging at the front. The building has steep old red tile roofs and is designed in a small T-plan, consisting of two storeys. It faces west and has a two-bay hall range that has been reduced to one and a half storeys, with a gable dormer at the rear. There is a two-storey, two-bay north crosswing that projects to the rear.

The farmhouse has a large external side chimney on the north crosswing and a large internal gable chimney on the south side. The entrance features a boarded door beneath a lean-to tiled canopy supported by brackets, with a 19th-century casement window to the right. To the left, the gable of the crosswing includes a 19th-century bargeboard, a slightly projecting casement upper window on brackets, and a gabled rectangular bay window below, which has 19th-century cast iron lattice casements. Inside, the original cross-beam in the hall has a hollow chamfer and bar-stops, supporting chamfered and hollow stopped joists.

Local climate

The Old Farmhouse at St Edmund's College (Rc) (140 Metres to South West of Main Building) 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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