Bayfordbury Park Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1988. Manor house, farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Bayfordbury Park Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- former-flint-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1988
- Type
- Manor house, farmhouse
- Address
- Bayfordbury Park Farmhouse, Lower Hatfield Road, SG13 8LA
- OS grid reference
- TL 310 109
- Coordinates
- 51.78224, -0.10106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bayfordbury Park Farmhouse is a manor house that has been converted into a farmhouse. It dates back to the 16th century but was relegated to farmhouse status around 1762 when Bayfordbury was built to the south. The building underwent alterations in the late 19th century, featuring a brick front and an east wing. The timber frame front is cased in red brick laid in Flemish bond, which is now painted, while the northwest wing is roughcast. The farmhouse has steep old red tile roofs with bellcast eaves and wide painted soffits.
It is two storeys tall with a cellar and follows a three-cell internal-chimney plan, facing south with the chimney located a third of the way from the west end. There is a rear wing at the northwest, and a former east gable chimney is now enclosed in a 1½-storey late 19th-century crosswing. The south front features six first-floor windows: five are mullioned three-light stucco windows, and there is a two-light window in the crosswing. A gabled porch with a chamfered four-centred arched entrance leads to a three-quarter glazed door. There are canted bay windows on either side of the porch and small cast-iron framed windows scattered across the front.
The northwest rear wing has a north gable chimney and an exposed jowled corner post. Inside the older part of the farmhouse, the first floor has a sloping floor and wide floorboards, with two-panel doors featuring H-hinges. The ground floor includes ceiling cornices and plank doors with old iron strap hinges. A drawing of the house from the edge of an estate map dated 1758 shows the close-studding exposed on the first floor.
Local climate
Bayfordbury Park Farmhouse 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 88% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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