Number 34 and Adjoining Entrance Screen on North is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. House, inn.

Number 34 and Adjoining Entrance Screen on North

WRENN ID
final-gravel-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
House, inn
Address
Number 34 and Adjoining Entrance Screen on North, AL3 8PB
OS grid reference
TL 060 165
Coordinates
51.8374, -0.46222
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 34 and the adjoining entrance screen on the north side is a house, originally built as a house or inn. It features an early 18th-century exterior that covers an older building, with an early 19th-century rear extension and entrance screen. The structure is made of red brick arranged in a chequered pattern with grey headers, while the northern end and rear are finished in painted stucco. The plum brick screen has stone coping and there is a wooden cornice beneath steep hipped slate roofs.

The building is two stories high with a cellar and has a six-window front facing east. The front is asymmetrical, featuring a stucco plinth, a brick plat-band, and a bracketed eaves cornice. The main entrance is accessed by three stone steps located below the third window from the northern end, and there is an additional wider entrance at the southern end, also up three stone steps. The windows are flush box sash style with six panes each, set under segmental gauged arches on both floors. The main door includes a semi-circular fanlight and fluted pilasters that support a full entablature topped with a triangular open pediment. The door itself is a half-glazed early 19th-century flush-beaded design with panelled reveals and features coloured glass leaded panels. The southern entrance has half-glazed early 19th-century double doors with flush-beaded panels, a moulded architrave, and a rectangular fanlight.

While the brick front appears to be constructed as a single unit, the second window from the southern end on the first floor is highlighted by a broad projecting brick surround and apron. The rear garden front is finished in stucco Gothick style, featuring cusped bargeboards and two-light casement windows with triangular pointed heads. There is a long rear wing at the southwest. The interior is reported to have wall paintings concealed by hessian wall covering in the northeast room on the ground floor. Additionally, a three-meter high segmental in-bowed brick screen wall adjoins the northern side, complete with boarded double gates and square brick piers topped with stone cappings.

Local climate

Number 34 and Adjoining Entrance Screen on North 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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