The Old Palace Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Old Palace Public House
- WRENN ID
- blind-cobble-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Old Palace Public House, 83, Langley Hill, Kings Langley, WD4 9HQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 066 026
- Coordinates
- 51.71211, -0.45808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Palace Public House is a building that originally served as a house, dating from the late 17th century for the eastern part, with a rear wing added in the early 19th century. The front was encased in brick during the mid-19th century when the western part, which includes a cellar, was added. The structure features a timber frame that is cased in plum brick, with the western gable end at the rear constructed from uncoursed knapped flint with brick dressings. The building has steep old red tile roofs, with the western part being hipped.
This two-storey house, which includes an attic and cellar, faces south and has a short, parallel-roofed two-storey rear range at the northeast. The south front features two three-light casement windows on the first floor beneath the eaves. There were originally two doorways side by side in the middle; the left-hand doorway has been converted into a six-over-six pane sash window. To the left, there is a recessed sash window with ten-over-ten panes and plastered reveals, while to the right, there is a rectangular bay window with three-over-three panes and a hipped tile roof, which includes panelled folding internal shutters. Inside, there is a winding stair in the northeast corner of the 17th-century part, along with a stop-chamfered ceiling beam.
Local climate
The Old Palace Public House 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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