Lye End Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Lye End Farm House
- WRENN ID
- inner-rood-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lye End Farm House, Sandon, SG9 0RS
- OS grid reference
- TL 334 320
- Coordinates
- 51.97137, -0.0593
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lye End Farm House is a house dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, which was floored, heated, and extended in the 17th century, with further extensions in the 19th century and alterations in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame that is rendered, with a tiled roof. Originally, it had a two-bay open hall, which was extended by two bays with a lobby entry to the left. The 19th-century additions are located to the right and at the rear of the house.
The house is two storeys tall and has a projecting porch in the bay to the left of the original building, featuring a half-glazed door in the reveal. There are two-light flush frame casement windows, with a single light window above the entrance. A stack is located in the entrance bay, behind the ridge, with four diagonal flues. There is a second entrance at the left end. The two bays added to the right have 20th-century casements and a slightly lower ridge, with a stack at the right end. At the rear, there is a slightly lower half-hipped wing and a lean-to attached to the rear of the 19th-century block, which has a catslide roof.
Inside, the early bays feature large scantling to the frame, a stop-chamfered binding beam, chamfered jowled posts, cambered tie beams, and curved tension braces.
Local climate
Lye End Farm House 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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