Hormead Bury is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. Manor house. 7 related planning applications.

Hormead Bury

WRENN ID
seventh-facade-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1951
Type
Manor house
Address
Hormead Bury, Horseshoe Lane, SG9 0NH
OS grid reference
TL 399 296
Coordinates
51.9475, 0.03422
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hormead Bury is a manor house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with a northern wing added around 1812 for Edward Stables and an eastern range renovated in the late 19th century. The building features a timber frame that is roughcast, while the older western range is faced with a parapet. The northern wing is constructed of brick and has a new entrance front with a parapet surrounding it. The roofs are steeply pitched and now covered with slate, with a hipped slate roof behind the parapet of the northern wing.

The house is T-shaped and consists of two storeys, with the oldest part facing west, featuring a two-cell internal chimney block with axial beams. The service wing, which runs parallel to the east, was renovated in the late 19th century and includes leaded casement windows. The taller northern wing has two cells, with rear-wall chimneys and a central entrance hall and staircase hall. The northern front has three long, symmetrical windows with a central door, all of which are sash windows with glazing bars. There is a late 19th-century bay window on the western end and a large ground floor bay at the eastern end.

The western front of the lower old range has two windows on each floor and a cornice with a parapet above. It features a tall round-headed sash window on the ground floor, with the northern window replaced by a canted late 19th-century bay, and square proportioned sash windows on the first floor.

Local climate

Hormead Bury sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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