Wisbridge Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. Farm house.
Wisbridge Farm House
- WRENN ID
- woven-keystone-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- Farm house
- Address
- Wisbridge Farm House, High Street, Reed
- OS grid reference
- TL 364 362
- Coordinates
- 52.00799, -0.01336
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wisbridge Farm House is a house that dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with extensions added in the later 17th century and early 19th century, and further alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame on a brick base, roughcast exterior with some weatherboarding, and a steeply pitched tiled roof. The house consists of two three-bay lobby houses in series, with the left section being somewhat later and additional structures at the rear.
The building is one storey with an attic, and both sections have central entrances that are sheltered by 20th-century closed pentice porches. To the right of the right entrance is a six-panelled door, while flanking it are a 16-pane sash window and a four-over-eight pane flush frame sash. To the left of the left entrance are three-light small pane flush frame casements, all of which have hoodboards. There is an additional casement in an early 19th-century bay to the far left. The left entrance has a higher brick plinth.
The roof features three box dormers with three, two, and three lights. There are ridge stacks behind the entrances, with the right stack being axial and rebuilt, and the left stack being smaller. The right gable end is rendered and has a ground floor 16-pane sash window and attic casements with two and three lights. The left gable end is weatherboarded and has one, two, and three-light casements.
At the rear left, there is a short early 19th-century service wing that is weatherboarded with a brick rear, featuring an external stack with tumbled-in offsets, attic casements, and further lean-to additions. Behind the main range is a short 19th-century brick lean-to with a hipped roof, an entrance with a bracketed hood, a 16-pane sash window, and a three-light box dormer. There is also a 20th-century gabled wing at the rear left.
Inside, the house has exposed framing with jowled posts and stop-chamfered bearers. The fireplaces feature stop-chamfered and chamfered lintels, and there is a small 17th-century staircase with an original knob on the newel post.
Local climate
Wisbridge 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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