Holly Tree Farmhouse and Holly Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1978. House. 10 related planning applications.
Holly Tree Farmhouse and Holly Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-foundation-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holly Tree Farmhouse and Holly Tree Cottage, the Green, Sarratt, WD3 6BH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 040 996
- Coordinates
- 51.68583, -0.49566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Tree Farmhouse and Holly Tree Cottage are a pair of houses dating back to the 17th century, with significant alterations and renovations in the mid to late 18th century. The farmhouse has a timber frame structure, but was refronted with brick and rendered. The cottage is a brick extension. Both have tiled roofs.
The farmhouse is two storeys high with two windows each. The original two-bay house has a front door on the left side, featuring six panels and a rounded top. The ground floor has timber casement windows with curved heads, and the first floor has three-light casements with leaded panes. An insurance marker dated 1714 is visible. The eaves are made of dentilled brick. An original axial ridge stack is located to the right of the centre, with a rebuilt, moulded cap. The right gable end is cement rendered, exposing the purlins, and includes a small two-light casement and a stack in a catslide roof to a rear lean-to outshut.
The attached cottage has a central entrance and 20th-century casement windows with curved heads on the ground floor. It also has dentilled eaves and a lower ridge. A left-end external stack is present on a one-story 20th-century addition. A continuous lean-to outshut runs along the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Holly Tree Farmhouse and Holly Tree Cottage 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 84% 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 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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