Church Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.

Church Farm House

WRENN ID
grim-pier-heath
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
Church Farm House, Church End, Rushden, SG9 0SQ
OS grid reference
TL 305 316
Coordinates
51.96782, -0.10114
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farm House is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, which has been altered, raised, and extended in the 20th century. It features a timber frame on a brick base, with the frame exposed and rendered infill. The roof is half hipped and thatched. The house consists of four bays: a two-bay hall in the center, which may have been open originally, a parlour bay to the right, and a service bay to the left. It has one storey and attics, with the entrance located in a screens passage position.

To the left, there is a small original three-light casement window with ovolo moulded mullions and jambs, featuring leaded lights. Further left is a 20th-century three-light casement window, along with a two-light dormer. The service bay contains a single-light casement and a three-light dormer. The exposed panel framing and joist ends are visible in the parlour bay, with tension braces at the ends and a wall plate at the raised eaves.

An addition to the left includes a 20th-century entrance and a canted oriel window. There is an axial ridge stack in the parlour and a stack behind the ridge at the original left end, which has an external brick oven that projects to the rear and is thatched. The right gable end facing the road is roughcast and features 20th-century two and three-light casements. At the rear, there are three and four-light casements, three two-light dormers, and a ground floor loggia on the 20th-century addition.

Local climate

Church 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 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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