Serpentine House with Attached Garden Wall and Handpump is a Grade II listed building in the South Holland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 June 1966. House. 3 related planning applications.
Serpentine House with Attached Garden Wall and Handpump
- WRENN ID
- ruined-gateway-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Holland
- Constituency
- South Holland and The Deepings MP: Sir John Hayes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Serpentine House with Attached Garden Wall and Handpump, PE12 7LB
- OS grid reference
- TF 359 245
- Coordinates
- 52.80098, 0.01568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Serpentine House is a house dating from 1831, with additions made around 1860. It is built of red brick with some ashlar detailing, and has hipped slate roofs punctuated by four lateral brick stacks. The main east front has four bays; the two right-hand bays are lower and set back slightly and date from 1831. The basement windows consist of three glazing bar sashes to the left and a single three-light glazing bar casement to the right. Four glazing bar sashes are present on both upper floors, with the windows in the two right-hand bays being smaller. All windows have flush wedge stone lintels. A plaque between the two top-floor right-hand bays is inscribed 'AH 1831'. Extensions were added around 1860 to the south. The north return wall features a curved flight of ashlar steps with a rusticated front wall, curved stone balusters, square piers, and ball finials on the inner wall. These steps lead to an open, Doric porch with entablature and cornice, containing an inner reveal and a panelled door on its interior. A partially glazed door is located to the left, with a flush wedge ashlar lintel and raised keystone; a small glazing bar casement is to the right. A bay to the right projects slightly and features a semi-circular headed arch. A glazing bar sash is positioned above the porch, with a semi-circular headed glazing bar sash above it, both featuring margin lights. Attached to the right is a red brick garden wall, broken by a semi-circular headed archway containing a wooden and cast iron painted hand pump.
Local climate
Serpentine House with Attached Garden Wall and Handpump sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 7 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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