Wall on North Side of Number 14 Taylors Avenue, and on North Side of Number 1 Oxenden Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Broxbourne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1983. Wall.

Wall on North Side of Number 14 Taylors Avenue, and on North Side of Number 1 Oxenden Drive

WRENN ID
south-vault-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Broxbourne
Constituency
Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 November 1983
Type
Wall
OS grid reference
TL 371 083
Coordinates
51.75733, -0.01392
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

This is a 17th and 18th century former boundary wall located on the north side of Number 14 Taylors Avenue and on the north side of Number 1 Oxenden Drive in Hoddesdon. The wall is made of red brick and measures approximately 40 metres long and 3 metres high, featuring a sloped brick coping. The eastern half, adjacent to Number 14 Taylors Avenue, dates from the 17th century, while the western half, near Number 1 Oxenden Drive, is from the 18th century, likely around 1730. This section includes flat buttresses connected to a plain plinth. There is an arch-headed entrance towards the east, which has a key block and a wrought iron gate from the 18th century.

Local climate

Wall on North Side of Number 14 Taylors Avenue, and on North Side of Number 1 Oxenden Drive sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

See all similar buildings →

this building   1 similar   nearby listed buildings

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Wall on South Side of Number 17 Grade II 60 m
  2. The Grange Grade II 72 m
  3. Former Gates, Gateposts and Boundary Walls to the Grange Grade II 121 m
  4. The Golden Lion Inn Grade II 136 m
  5. Jacobean Wing (east) and Victorian Wing (north) of Rawdon House Grade II* 138 m
  6. 38, High Street Grade II 138 m
  7. Conduit Head Statue Behind District Council Offices Grade II 147 m
  8. Rathmore House Grade II* 211 m
  9. North House and South House Grade II 214 m
  10. Hoddesdon Plant Hire Limited Grade II 225 m