Thorley Houses Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Thorley Houses Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- low-newel-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Thorley Houses Farmhouse, Thorley Lane, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 4BN
- OS grid reference
- TL 465 201
- Coordinates
- 51.86055, 0.12688
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorley Houses Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-frame building. It has a pebbledash exterior and a steep roof covered with old red tiles. The farmhouse is two storeys high with three windows. A modern porch and casement windows are present. A central chimneystack is constructed of old brick. To the northwest of the house is a weatherboarded and thatched barn. The building is included on the list for group value.
Local climate
Thorley Houses Farmhouse 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- 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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