Upper Cromer Hyde Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Upper Cromer Hyde Farmhouse

WRENN ID
stubborn-chalk-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Upper Cromer Hyde Farmhouse, AL8 7XE
OS grid reference
TL 200 124
Coordinates
51.79802, -0.26087
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an early 19th century farmhouse constructed of red brick, located in Upper Cromer Hyde, north of Hatfield. The house has a hipped roof covered in old tiles. It is two storeys high. The front elevation features two recessed windows with 8/8 panes of glass, with one window on the first floor being bricked in. There are plain wooden eaves. A 19th-century latticed wooden porch fronts a modern entrance door. The south elevation shows two similar windows and a central buttress.

Local climate

Upper Cromer Hyde Farmhouse 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 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2009
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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  • 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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