Rear Wing of Vaga House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1952. Barn. 6 related planning applications.
Rear Wing of Vaga House
- WRENN ID
- tenth-sill-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1952
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Rear Wing of Vaga House, Quay Street, Hereford, HR1 2NH
- OS grid reference
- SO 510 396
- Coordinates
- 52.05312, -2.71484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The rear wing of Vaga House is a barn, dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, and now incorporated into a dwelling. The structure is timber-framed with brick facing, the gable being of 18th-century brick. It has a 20th-century plain tile roof and 20th-century brick stacks, one to the southwest and one to the north. The east front, dating from the 18th century, features 6/6 and paired 6/6 sash windows. There is also a tripartite 19th-century window with 4/4:6/6:4/4 sashes, and a 19th-century 6-panel door beneath a segmental arch. The left returned side has a casement window and a 6/6 sash window, both under segmental arches, set into 18th-century brickwork. The interior is accessed from the main staircase of Vaga House. On the first floor, there is an unhung 4-panel door and a panelled overlight. The ground floor has a part-glazed panelled door with an 18th-century overlight, a flagstone floor, a clerestory light, a 19th-century 4-panel door and overlight, two plank doors, an early 20th-century glazed wall unit and cupboards, two unhung 4-panel doors, one plank door, and one 2-panel door.
Local climate
Rear Wing of Vaga House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 2000
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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