Mortons Place and Morton House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.

Mortons Place and Morton House

WRENN ID
gilded-lancet-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1987
Type
House
Address
Mortons Place and Morton House, Chapel Road, Flamstead, AL3 8DD
OS grid reference
TL 077 146
Coordinates
51.81997, -0.43764
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mortons Place and Morton House comprise two houses, originating in the 17th century or earlier and later faced with brickwork in the 18th century. A more recent alteration and extension have created a separate house within a rear wing to the northwest. The building is timber-framed, with a red brick facade, and has a steeply pitched roof covered with old red tiles, hipped at the west end.

The main house is a two-storey building with a cellar, originally consisting of two rooms with an internal chimney and a lobby-entry plan. It faces south and has a lower, two-storey, service wing to the north, also hipped. The south front is symmetrical, with three windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor, flanking a rectangular brick porch with a hipped, lean-to roof. The windows are three-light flush casements, with a single-light window above the porch. They have leaded glazing. A battened door leads to the porch, and casement windows and a six-panel fielded door are located on the west elevation of Morton House. The property is prominent at the entrance to the village.

Local climate

Mortons Place and Morton House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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.

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  • Sale history — 9 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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