Binghams Park is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.

Binghams Park

WRENN ID
moated-rotunda-burdock
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
Binghams Park, Potten End Hill, Great Gaddesden, HP1 3BN
OS grid reference
TL 030 095
Coordinates
51.77539, -0.50755
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Binghams Park is a house dating from the early 17th century, which was altered into two cottages in the 19th century, with additional changes made in the 20th century. The older part of the house is timber-framed, while the newer sections are made of red brick and are all plastered on the outside. The northern part of the house has been weatherboarded in the 20th century. It features steeply pitched roofs that are now covered with slate.

The building is irregular in shape, with one and a half stories, oriented north to south, consisting of two cells and an internal chimney. It was originally designed as a lobby-entry house, with a short gabled kitchen wing projecting east from the southern part of the house. There are two-storey gabled additions to the southwest and north, along with a lean-to entrance and stair extension on the east side.

The exterior is picturesque, showcasing multiple gables, gabled dormers, large external chimneys, and casement windows. The entrance features a round-headed oak door. Inside, the house retains exposed timbers from the wall frame, a clasped-purlin roof with straight wind braces, and a squint-butted scarf joint in the wallplate. The main room north of the chimney stack has axial chamfered floor beams with bar-stops, while the kitchen wing features scroll-stops. There are also some early 18th-century two-panel doors with H-hinges.

Local climate

Binghams Park 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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