Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1966. House.

Church House

WRENN ID
dark-slate-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1966
Type
House
Address
Church House, Nettleden with Potten End
OS grid reference
TL 019 105
Coordinates
51.78397, -0.52301
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church House is a house dating from around 1700, with little alteration since its construction. It features red brick with blue headers in a chequered pattern, a painted front, and an exposed timber frame with brick nogging in the gable triangles. The house has a steep old red tile roof and is a large, two-storey structure with attics and a cellar, facing north. There is a 19th-century lean-to tiled extension against the east end, which is set back.

Originally, the house had a symmetrical front with five windows and a central door, but now the first window from the west on each floor is blocked, as is the second window from the east on the ground floor. It has a plinth and a brick floor-band. The cross windows are slightly recessed and feature lattice leaded glazing. There is a rustic gabled porch, and a blocked first-floor cross window on the east end has a soldier-arch made of alternating red and blue headers.

Two gabled dormers are set high on the roof slope, each with two-light lattice leaded casements. Inside, there are two main rooms on each floor, with a staircase located off the entrance lobby. The larger room on the east side served as a hall and kitchen and has a rear-wall chimney, while the west room, known as the parlour, features a cross-beam and a projecting chimney on the west gable.

Local climate

Church 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 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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