Sebright House and Sebright Cottage at Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. A N/A Inn, cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Sebright House and Sebright Cottage at Rear
- WRENN ID
- young-span-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Inn, cottage
- Period
- N/A
- Address
- Sebright House and Sebright Cottage at Rear, 76, High Street, Markyate, AL3 8LF
- OS grid reference
- TL 061 163
- Coordinates
- 51.8357, -0.46036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sebright House and the rear Sebright Cottage is a mid-18th century inn, later converted into a private house, with a 19th-century stable at the rear. It was an inn until 1967. The building is constructed of fine red brick with a low stucco plinth; the stable is of plum brick with tile hanging to the upper floor of the rear wing on the south side. It has steep old red tile roofs, with the main range featuring a gambrel rear slope and a pitched front slope. The house is symmetrical, three storeys high, and three windows wide, with a central entrance and end chimneys. A central stairwell is located at the rear. The east front has 2-light small-paned Yorkshire sliding casements on the second floor, recessed sash windows with 8/8 panes on the first floor, and two triple-sash segmental bowed oriel windows on the ground floor, each with panes arranged 3/2: 9/6: 3/2. All windows have flat gauged arches. The elaborate wooden doorcase features a triangular dentilled pediment on fluted Doric pilasters, panelled reveals, an archivolt, a fan-pattern semi-circular fanlight, a moulded transom extending across the reveals and entablature of the pilasters, and a three-panelled fielded door with a top glazed panel.
Local climate
Sebright House and Sebright Cottage at Rear 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 78% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 2003
- 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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