North Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House.
North Farm House
- WRENN ID
- over-fireplace-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- North Farm House, Crow Lane, Reed
- OS grid reference
- TL 365 363
- Coordinates
- 52.00875, -0.01172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Farm House is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with extensions from the 18th century and alterations made in the 20th century. It has a timber frame set on a renewed brick base and features bead-moulded weatherboarding. The house has a steeply pitched half-hipped thatched roof and was originally built with three bays and a through passage, along with some small additions. It has one storey and an attic, with a single-storey addition.
The entrance is located to the right in a recess that has a small hood. The windows include three and one light small pane flush frame casements, as well as a two-light dormer with eyebrow thatching. There is a rebuilt ridge stack to the left of the centre. A kitchen wing extends forward from the right bay, which was further extended in the 20th century. This wing features two-light casements and a half-hipped roof, with a ridge stack that has a red brick extruded oven on the right return where the kitchen meets a lean-to dairy outshut that has a catslide roof extending from the right end of the main range. The left gable end has two-light casements and exposed plates. Additionally, there is a 19th-century single-storey outbuilding that extends to the rear left, which is weatherboarded and has corrugated roofing. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
North 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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