Friars Grange is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. House. 1 related planning application.

Friars Grange

WRENN ID
burning-footing-bittern
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
Friars Grange, Rushden, SG9 0TF
OS grid reference
TL 317 328
Coordinates
51.97872, -0.08266
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Friars Grange is a house with origins dating from the early to mid 16th century, with additions from the 18th century. It was remodeled in the 19th century and altered in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame that is roughcast and weatherboarded, topped with slate roofs. The original 16th-century block is a two-bay, two-storey structure that may have been part of a larger house that has since disappeared. Attached to this is a narrower, lower, one-storey and attic, three-bay extension that was once a weatherboarded outbuilding.

The original block has a 20th-century rectangular bay window projecting from the front and features 20th-century flush frame casements. There is an inserted cross axial ridge stack on a shallow pitched 19th-century roof. To the left, there is a three-bay range with three small gables and a cross axial stack. At the rear, the original block is jettied with exposed joists and is largely underbuilt. The three-bay addition has two gables, with the right bay slightly projecting and featuring sham timber framing. The entrance is located to the left of this range, and there is a 20th-century bracketed hood over the entrance to the outbuilding on the right, which also has another entrance in its gable end.

Inside, there is a quirked wave-moulded cross axial bearer along with later chamfered axial bearers in the 16th-century bays, and exposed jowled posts of large scantling.

Local climate

Friars Grange 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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