Old Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.
Old Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grey-pewter-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Farm Cottage, 100, Arlesey Road, Ickleford, SG5 3TH
- OS grid reference
- TL 185 321
- Coordinates
- 51.97529, -0.27498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Farm Cottage is a house dating from the 16th or early 17th century, renovated in the 1980s. It is timber-framed with a brick sill, the timber frame exposed with plastered panels, and the ground floor partly of red brick. The roof is steeply pitched with old red tiles. The house is a T-plan design, set back from the road, facing west. It has a three-bay, south-gabled crosswing. An entrance is provided by a hipped-roofed brick porch located in the angle of the crosswing and aligned with a large internal chimney. The windows are flush casements, mostly renewed, with a two-light window to each floor on the right-hand side of the crosswing, and a three-light window to the main range, with a gable above the upper window. The timber framing of the crosswing shows jowled posts, a mid-height rail, and a clasped-purlin roof on a collar. The interior features exposed timbers and follows a lobby entrance plan.
Local climate
Old Farm Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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