1, 2 and 3 The Dell is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House. 7 related planning applications.

1, 2 and 3 The Dell

WRENN ID
forgotten-pediment-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
House
Address
1, 2 and 3 The Dell, Dunny Lane, Chipperfield, WD4 9DB
OS grid reference
TL 036 014
Coordinates
51.702, -0.5011
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

1, 2, and 3 The Dell comprise a picturesque group of three houses. The core of the buildings dates to the late 17th century, with later alterations and additions in the 18th and 19th centuries, and a gabled extension to number 1 in 1984. The houses are timber-framed and originally clad in red brick, with parts of number 3 dating to the 18th century and numbers 1 and 2 re-clad in the 19th century. A flint gable is visible on the rear extension of number 1, while number 2 has a roughcast north gable and number 3 has a brick-nogged timber-frame south gable and a single-storey dark weatherboarded south extension. All buildings feature old red tile roofs.

Numbers 1 and 2, which are taller than number 3, face west with a north gable to the road. They have segmental arches above their small-pane casement windows, with two windows on each floor. Each has a central six-panel door. A gable chimney is present on the left-hand side, and a rear lateral stack on the right-hand side of number 2. Number 3, to the south, has an 18th-century brick facade, a dentilled eaves course, three upper windows, and a central door below. It has small two-light casement windows with segmental arches on the ground floor, and a plank door. The single-storey weatherboarded south extension has a large chimney against the end of the house and a triangular oriel window. Interior walls demonstrate slender timber framing.

Local climate

1, 2 and 3 The Dell 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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  • Sale history — 11 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 7 applications
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  • 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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