Holborn Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
Holborn Farm House
- WRENN ID
- heavy-marble-dawn
- 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
- Holborn Farm House, Dane End, Therfield, SG8 9RH
- OS grid reference
- TL 346 361
- Coordinates
- 52.00749, -0.03897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holborn Farm House is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century and an extension added in the 20th century. It features a timber frame construction with roughcast exterior and a steeply pitched tiled roof. The original layout includes a broad three-cell lobby entry and the house is two storeys high.
To the right of the centre, there is a projecting gabled entrance porch, flanked by three-light small pane flush frame casements, with a second entrance to the left. The first floor jetties out, supported by curved brackets, and is underbuilt at both ends. On this floor, there are three two-light casements with cambered heads. The cross axial ridge stack has been rebuilt to match the original design and includes two diagonal flues. The left end of the house is rendered and has a ground floor two-light casement, while the attic is weatherboarded. The right end features a first-floor two-light casement and a weatherboarded attic.
Attached to the right is a single-storey 20th-century outshut that connects to an earlier outbuilding, which is weatherboarded and has a steeply pitched half-hipped tiled roof, consisting of two bays. The outbuilding has double doors and a smaller door at the front. The interior has not been inspected, and the 20th-century addition to the rear is of no special interest.
Local climate
Holborn 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 92% 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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