Farmhouse at Coles Green Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.

Farmhouse at Coles Green Farm

WRENN ID
second-mortar-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Farmhouse at Coles Green Farm, Throcking Road, Cottered, SG9 9RB
OS grid reference
TL 327 299
Coordinates
51.95214, -0.0697
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

House. Dating back to the 16th century, this was originally a hall-house. A one-storey west extension, along with an inserted chimney and floor, were added in the 17th century. A matching porch was constructed in the 20th century. The building is timber-framed with a red brick sill, plastered to the west of the porch, and features fan-patterned pargeting and plain window margins. It has steep half-hipped thatched roofs, including eyebrow dormers on both the front and back of the chamber above the hall, and another to the west of the porch. The west part has a hipped thatched roof.

Originally a three-cell hall-house facing south, it was converted in the 17th century to a central-chimney, lobby-entry plan with a parlour at the east end, which remained unheated until an 18th-century red brick external gable chimney was added. The central chimney likely replaced a screens passage. The exterior includes a large gabled porch with two windows on each side and two dormers.

Inside, the structure reveals exposed timber framing in the walls and floors featuring close-studding. There are axial floor-beams at each end of the house, alongside a chamfered cross-beam with run-out stops inserted in the hall. The roof is a clasped-purlin design, complete with wind-braces, and tie-beams cut and braced to the floor structure.

Local climate

Farmhouse at Coles Green Farm 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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