The Old Farmhouse and Roseberry Cottage at Mole's Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Farmhouse and Roseberry Cottage at Mole's Farm
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-nave-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Old Farmhouse and Roseberry Cottage at Mole's Farm, Cambridge Road, Thundridge, SG12 0UG
- OS grid reference
- TL 360 161
- Coordinates
- 51.82713, -0.02674
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Farmhouse and Roseberry Cottage at Mole's Farm is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been converted into two houses. The narrower western half, known as Roseberry Cottage, is likely a contemporary extension to the wider eastern part, which may have originally served a non-domestic purpose or be part of a larger structure. The building is plastered and features an old red tile roof, with a projecting plinth and floorband. It is probably timber-framed, with some sections replaced in red brick beneath the plaster.
The northern side of the western half has a small gabled tiled porch. The eastern half is two stories tall with attics and is two windows wide, featuring slightly recessed boxed sash windows with eight panes each. There are two flat-topped dormers on the northern slope of the roof. The western half has smaller casement windows on its northern elevation, while the eastern face has larger windows. A prominent chimney on the eastern gable projects outward and has a large open fireplace on the ground floor.
Inside the eastern part, which is nearly eight meters wide, there are heavy chamfered stopped ceiling beams that divide the space into two bays, each containing two similar longitudinal beams. This suggests that the original layout consisted of a single large room on each floor, each with a large end fireplace. The roof features A-frame pegged oak trusses that span a wide area.
Local climate
The Old Farmhouse and Roseberry Cottage at Mole's Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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