Central Block of Farm Buildings at Fanhams Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Farm building. 3 related planning applications.
Central Block of Farm Buildings at Fanhams Home Farm
- WRENN ID
- quiet-gateway-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farm building
- Address
- Central Block of Farm Buildings at Fanhams Home Farm, Fanhams Hall Road, Wareside, SG12 7PW
- OS grid reference
- TL 374 157
- Coordinates
- 51.82362, -0.00762
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a model farm building dating from 1901, likely designed by W Wood Bethell, the architect of Fanhams Hall, for the Croft family. The building is constructed with a high red brick plinth and plastered walls above, featuring brick surrounds to the openings and pilasters. Red tiled roofs cover the structure.
The main range runs east to west and is a single storey, with four gabled wings projecting to the south, creating yards enclosed by brick walls and piers topped with knobs. The central part of the main range, rising to one and a half storeys, has three gabled dormers on the north side and a central clock cupola with a vane. Smaller square, louvred vents with knobs are situated on the roofs of the lower ranges.
The block was originally divided into distinct areas: stables in the centre and east portions, a barn in the northwest section, an implement shed open to the west in the western range, and a larger cowhouse projecting centrally to the south. Segmental arched sash windows are present throughout. Decorative bargeboards adorn the gables, and the west range features a dormer with a curved pediment. Plasterwork bearing the dates '1901' and a Croft monogram is visible on the southwest gable.
Local climate
Central Block of Farm Buildings at Fanhams Home 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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