Old Palace Lodge and Langley Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. A C19 House. 11 related planning applications.
Old Palace Lodge and Langley Hill House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-corner-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Palace Lodge and Langley Hill House, 69a and 69b, Kings Langley, WD4 9HQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 066 026
- Coordinates
- 51.71226, -0.45714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A house, now divided into two separate residences, built in the early 19th century, with later 19th-century additions. The original central section has three bays, with wings added to the north and south, and a porch on the left-hand side of the house (No. 69(b)). The property was divided into two dwellings around 1950. It is constructed of grey brick with buff brick arches, and has a stucco string course at first-floor window sill level, along with an eaves cornice featuring a blocking course. The brickwork of No. 69(a) has been painted. The roof is hipped, with a taller red tile roof over the south wing.
The house has a double-pile plan and faces south with a 2:3:2 window arrangement on the first floor. It features recessed sash windows with 6/6 panes, each set within a flat-gauged arch. A central round-headed doorway sits within a round arched recess, and similar recesses frame square-headed windows on either side of the centre. Projecting bays are located at each end; No. 69(b) has a Venetian window, and No. 69(a) features a canted tiled bay. Louvred shutters are present on No. 69(b), along with a later porch. The building is included on the list primarily for its contribution to the surrounding group of buildings.
Local climate
Old Palace Lodge and Langley Hill House 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 2016
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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