Southern Green Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. House.
Southern Green Farm House
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-timber-marsh
- 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
- Southern Green Farm House, Rushden
- OS grid reference
- TL 312 317
- Coordinates
- 51.96916, -0.09104
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Southern Green Farm House is a house with early 17th century origins that was remodeled in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of brick, roughcast, and rendered materials, topped with a shallow pitched slate roof. The building features three broad bays and stands two storeys tall. The entrance is located between the right and central bays, framed by a 19th-century gabled porch with a chamfered four-centred outer arch.
On the ground floor, to the right, there is a six-light transomed casement window, recessed with chamfered jambs, and to the left, an eight-light casement window. Further left, there are a four-light vertical casement and a four-light horizontal casement, the latter having ovolo moulded mullions. A continuous moulded plat band runs along the building. The first floor has three recessed six-light transomed casements. Between the left and central bays, there is a repositioned datestone marked 'EWM 1632' along with a Sun Fire Insurance Marker.
The left end of the house features a stock brick external stack, while the first floor has a horizontal sliding sash window. The right end has ground floor French windows and a six-light casement on the first floor. At the rear, there is a large rendered stack, likely from the 17th century, positioned centrally and external to the main block. To the left, there is a catslide roof extending from the main roof over a lean-to projection. There are also lower large lean-to projections on the right with dormers.
Inside, the house contains many re-used stop-chamfered binding beams, arranged both axially and cross axially, as well as moulded doorcases leading to early plank doors.
Local climate
Southern Green 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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