Roughdown Villas is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1977. House. 12 related planning applications.
Roughdown Villas
- WRENN ID
- fossil-wicket-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Roughdown Villas, 7 and 8, Roughdown Villas Road, HP3 0AX
- OS grid reference
- TL 041 057
- Coordinates
- 51.74079, -0.49272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Roughdown Villas comprises four pairs of semi-detached houses dating from the mid-19th century. The houses are constructed of stucco with elsh slated roofs featuring bracketted eaves cornices. They have basements and attics, and are two storeys high. The design incorporates recessed wings with a window arrangement of 1:2:1. The windows are side casements and central sashes with glazing bars. The ground floor has pilasters and entablatures, while the first floor has architrave surrounds. Door surrounds are accentuated with cornices resting on consoles. Nos 5 and 6 have one gabled dormer each. Nos 1 to 8 form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Roughdown Villas 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 44 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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