Wood Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. House.
Wood Farm House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-vestry-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wood Farm House, Rushden
- OS grid reference
- TL 323 325
- Coordinates
- 51.97596, -0.07429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wood Farm House is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is rendered, and has a machine tiled roof. The layout includes a lobby entry, three cells, and four bays, with one storey and an attic. The entrance is located to the left of the centre and is accompanied by a later gabled porch.
On the ground floor to the left, there is a small canted bay window, while to the right are two flush frame three-light casements; one of these has a timber transom and the other has leaded lights. The house has three 20th-century gabled dormers, each with three leaded lights. At the rear of the entrance, there is an axial red brick stack, and to the right end, there is a later stock brick external stack situated in a narrower and lower 18th-century outshut, which has an old tiled roof and double doors at the front, along with casements in the gable end that reveal exposed purlins. The left end also shows exposed purlins and features an outshut with a hipped roof. At the rear, there is a broad 20th-century gabled wing. The house is located on a partially moated site.
Local climate
Wood 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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