Hillside Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.

Hillside Farm House

WRENN ID
shifting-barrel-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 August 1986
Type
House
Address
Hillside Farm House, Shaftenhoe End, Barley, SG8 8LE
OS grid reference
TL 407 379
Coordinates
52.02167, 0.04988
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hillside Farm House is a house dating from around 1800, with a late 16th-century bay still intact, and has been extended in the 20th century. It features a timber frame on a brick base and is rendered, topped with steeply pitched tiled roofs. The front of the house is symmetrical with three bays, including a stair wing and a kitchen outshut. The early bay survives at the rear right, making the overall shape of the building an L on plan. The house is two storeys high with a central entrance that has a six-panelled door, four of which are fielded, framed by a pilastered architrave and a flat hood that projects on iron colonnettes. The windows are 16-pane sashes with flush moulded frames. There are extruded red brick end stacks with offsets on the left and cement rendering on the right.

To the right end, there is a lower two-storey kitchen bay with a hipped roof and 20th-century casements. At the rear, there are three-light casements and a central lean-to stair wing. The early bay at the rear right has an extruded stack and a lean-to outshut on the outer elevation, with two and three-light casements on the first floor. The house was extended by two bays to the rear in the 20th century, featuring a central ridge stack and casements. Attached to the rear gable end is a low two-bay outbuilding with a brick and flint plinth, weatherboarding, and a pantiled roof, part of which is open to the yard. Inside, there is a dogleg staircase with slat balusters, newel posts, and a moulded handrail.

Local climate

Hillside 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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