Bassus Green Farmhouse (South West of Junction) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Bassus Green Farmhouse (South West of Junction)
- WRENN ID
- over-tracery-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bassus Green Farmhouse (South West of Junction), 1, Walkern
- OS grid reference
- TL 303 257
- Coordinates
- 51.91491, -0.10627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bassus Green Farmhouse is a 16th-century house located south of the junction in Walkern. It features a timber frame construction with roughcast walls and steep old red tile roofs, including a half-hipped west end on the kitchen wing. The house is two stories high and consists of three main sections, facing south, with a single-story kitchen to the west and a long dairy wing extending north from the kitchen.
The farmhouse has four structural bays, with the end bays divided into a parlour on the east and service rooms on the west. There was formerly a separate two-bay outside kitchen on the west side, which remains open to the roof and includes a staircase leading to a chamber above the dairy to the north. The lower bay of the hall features a chimney that backs onto the staircase and cross-passage, while an internal gable chimney has been added for the parlour on the east side, and a central chimney has been inserted in the kitchen.
Inside, the farmhouse showcases exposed close-studding and curved tension-bracing in both the house and the dairy wing. It has jowled posts with clasped-purlin roofs, wind-braces, and edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts in the north wallplate. The kitchen also contains jowled posts, angle-ties, close-studding, and cambered tie-beams, with the east corner posts positioned about 0.5 meters from the house.
Local climate
Bassus Green Farmhouse (South West of Junction) 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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