Farmhouse at Yewtree Farm is a Grade II* listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Farmhouse at Yewtree Farm

WRENN ID
pitched-bonework-quill
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Farmhouse at Yewtree Farm, Kettle Green Road, Much Hadham, SG10 6AJ
OS grid reference
TL 426 185
Coordinates
51.84711, 0.06935
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The farmhouse at Yewtree Farm, originally listed as Yewtree House, dates from the late 15th or early 16th century and represents a variant form of a Wealden house. The hall was floored around 1600, and a late 17th-century attic is dated 1697. The exterior features an exposed timber frame with plaster and a thatched hipped roof, which has red tile courses at the eaves and around the gabled attic dormer. There is a late 17th-century red brick chimneystack, which has been built up later, located towards the south and includes mullions.

The east elevation has four windows and a continuous jetty, with the end bays being original jettied cross wings that have tension bracing on each floor. The ground floor features three late 17th-century, three-light, leaded casements. Above the door, there is an attic window dated 1697, with a window below that has casements of the same date. The first floor includes 19th-century oriel windows, one of which is a canted, two-light casement. The north elevation has a tall, 19th-century, external red brick stack, while the ground floor is roughcast with a canted tiled oriel on the east side. The rear elevation displays two thatched, single-light, eyebrow dormers set into the slope of the roof.

Additionally, there is a mid-19th-century, one-window extension on the south side that connects the thatched and weatherboarded range to the house, part of which served as an outdoor kitchen. Inside, the farmhouse features a two-bay hall and a late 17th-century oak staircase on the north side. There are also remains of a diamond mullioned window in the west wall of the hall.

Local climate

Farmhouse at Yewtree 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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