Horse Shoe Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. House. 1 related planning application.

Horse Shoe Farm House

WRENN ID
brooding-hammer-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 May 1968
Type
House
Address
Horse Shoe Farm House, London Road, Barley, SG8 8JE
OS grid reference
TL 397 382
Coordinates
52.02533, 0.03525
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Horse Shoe Farm House is a house dating from around 1700, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a timber frame on a brick base, with panelled pargetted rendering and a tiled roof. The building is L-shaped in plan and has three bays on the front. It stands two storeys high, with a cellar and an attic. The tall brick plinth includes a cellar opening on the right side.

On the ground floor, there are steps leading up to a central entrance that has a 19th-century pedimented architrave. Flanking the entrance are tripartite sash windows set in moulded flush frames, while similar sash windows with glazing bars are found on the first floor. The eaves cornice is timber and features modillions. There are end stacks that are slightly extruded with offsets, an attic casement window to the left, and first-floor casements to the right, above a weatherboarded lean-to outshut.

At the rear, the house has a mix of sash windows and some original three-light casements with thin ovolo moulded mullions. There is a catslide roof over a lean-to stair turret located at the centre of the rear. To the right at the rear is the original kitchen wing, which includes some weatherboarding and a hip roof at the back, as well as a cross axial ridge stack and a catslide roof over a lean-to outshut on the right end that continues from the front. Inside, the house features ovolo moulded axial bearers and a 19th-century staircase.

Local climate

Horse Shoe 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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