Old Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House.

Old Farm House

WRENN ID
knotted-bastion-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1988
Type
House
Address
Old Farm House, Offley
OS grid reference
TL 154 279
Coordinates
51.93809, -0.32161
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Farm House is a house dating from the late 17th century, with a rear extension added in the 18th century. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a steep old red tile roof. The house is two storeys high, with a cellar and attics, and faces east. It has a two-cells, end chimneys plan, along with a parallel rear extension of similar size. The east front is symmetrical, with two windows on each floor, a recess over the central door, and two hipped dormers. There is a plat band and segmental arches, as well as two canted bay windows on the ground floor. The windows are casement style, and the panelled door, which has been renewed, is set in an early 19th-century fluted doorcase. There is a round-headed recess above the rear door and irregular fenestration. Inside the older part of the house, the ground floor features cross-beams, while the first floor has axial beams that span onto two cross-beams flanking the central stair. The kitchen/living room is located on the north side and includes a large open fireplace, with the west jamb rebuilt using spare Venetian bricks from the later 20th-century rebuilding of Kings Walden Bury. The parlour is situated on the south side and has a corner fireplace at the southwest, with a cellar located below.

Local climate

Old Farm House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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