Old Marlowes House is a Grade II* listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1948. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.
Old Marlowes House
- WRENN ID
- standing-garret-fen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1948
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Marlowes House, 53, HP1 1LE
- OS grid reference
- TL 055 073
- Coordinates
- 51.75459, -0.47225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Marlowes House is a building dating from around 1650, which was remodeled in the 18th century. It served as the dower house of The Bury until 1678, after which it was sold by the Combes family. The house features a stucco front and a low-pitched roof, and it has two storeys with four sash windows that include glazing bars. The entrance boasts a fine doorway with an eight-fielded panelled door, an architrave surround, and an open broken pediment supported by consoles. The tympanum above the door contains an armorial roundel surrounded by a wreath. Inside, the house retains a remarkable mid-17th century staircase with Corinthian newel posts, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail. The hall is ovolo panelled and features a panelled round arch on Doric pilasters. There is also a finely carved chimneypiece in the ground floor room. Old Marlowes House is part of a group that includes Nos 45, 53 to 59 (odd) and Nos 63 to 67 (odd).
Local climate
Old Marlowes 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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