Fox Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House.

Fox Farm House

WRENN ID
lunar-pier-furze
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
Fox Farm House, London Road (A10), Reed
OS grid reference
TL 359 391
Coordinates
52.03418, -0.01981
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fox Farm House is a house built around 1800, with extensions added in the 20th century. It is constructed from clay lump, mainly using chalk, and is stuccoed with red brick dressings. The house features a steeply pitched tiled roof and has a symmetrical three-bay lobby entry plan. It stands two storeys high with an attic.

The central entrance includes a recessed six-panelled door, framed by a doorcase with a panelled lintel and jambs, and supported by brackets beneath a flat leaded hood. The outer bays are fitted with tripartite horizontal sliding sashes that are recessed and have gauged brick flat arched heads, all set within full-height red brick strips. Above the entrance, there is a small traceried elliptical false window on the first floor, framed in red brick, along with a red brick framing around the doorcase. The front stucco is rusticated to imitate ashlar blocks, and there is a brick plinth and strips at the return angles.

The house has a central cross axial ridge stack and plain rendered returns. On the left side, there is a ground floor 12-pane flush frame sash and an attic light. The right end features an entrance to a ground floor conservatory outshut, with two-light casements on the first floor and attic. The rear angles have red brick strips, and there are 20th-century additions to the rear and left.

Local climate

Fox 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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