Lower Green Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Farmhouse.

Lower Green Farmhouse

WRENN ID
low-bonework-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Green Farmhouse, Ickleford
OS grid reference
TL 186 324
Coordinates
51.97819, -0.2738
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Green Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and roughcast, topped with steep old red tile roofs. The building is a long, irregular structure located at the rear of a farmyard, facing west. The central block is tall and two stories high, featuring a rear outshut and a very large chimney on the southern half. Each floor has one flush three-light casement window. At the southern end, there is a lower two-story section with a two-light casement window on each floor. The entrance is through a gabled porch that leads into a single-story northern part, which has a chimney on the north gable. The main chimney is adorned with pilaster strips above the roof.

Local climate

Lower Green 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 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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