Middle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Farmhouse.

Middle Farmhouse

WRENN ID
hushed-kitchen-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 November 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Middle Farmhouse, Chapel Street, Hinxworth
OS grid reference
TL 235 406
Coordinates
52.05034, -0.19942
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Middle Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the late 16th century, designed in an L shape and later altered in the mid-19th century. It features a timber frame with roughcast walls and stands two storeys high. The front has three flush-sash windows and a central fielded panel door with a plain fanlight. The rear wing is lower than the main section. A large red brick chimney stack, dating from around 1700, is located near the junction with the front range, with the upper part of the stack featuring rectangular panels. The main range likely consists of three bays from the 16th century, with the furthest bay being a 19th-century addition made of painted brick. On the southwest side, there are two first-floor sash windows above tiled and canted sash bays, while the northeast side has two flush panel doors. A mid-19th-century dairy has been added to the back of the front range on this side. Inside the main house, there are crown posts at each end of the roof, and the range appears to have incorporated a timber stack or smoke bay.

Local climate

Middle Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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