Elm Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Elm Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- heavy-forge-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elm Tree Farmhouse, 1, Hambridge Way, Pirton, SG5 3QS
- OS grid reference
- TL 149 317
- Coordinates
- 51.97203, -0.32846
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm Tree Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with the southern bay of the crosswing built in the early 17th century and the northwest wing added in the later 17th century. It has a timber frame, roughcast exterior, and steep old red tile roofs. The house is designed in a T-plan and faces south, with the entrance now located on the west side of the two-storey west crosswing. There is also a two-storey later wing with a staircase and a second entrance, which is attached at the northwest corner of the crosswing.
The west front features two casement windows on each floor and a central entrance. There is one window on the upper floor of the south gable of the northwest wing, which is positioned at right angles to the front. A gabled timber porch leads to the door on the left, with a window on the right. The windows include flush three-light and two-light casement windows. The west face of the northwest wing has two casement windows on the first floor and a flush box sash window on the ground floor, which has eight over eight panes.
Inside, the farmhouse showcases exposed timbers, jowled posts, clasped-purlin roofs, axial beams, and curved braces. The doors are two-panel with HL hinges. The northwest wing is fully framed and features an external chimney on the north gable.
Local climate
Elm Tree 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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