Numbers 14, and 15 (Croeso) is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. House.

Numbers 14, and 15 (Croeso)

WRENN ID
winter-gargoyle-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
House
Address
Numbers 14, and 15 (Croeso), Leighton Buzzard Road (A4146), Great Gaddesden
OS grid reference
TL 035 106
Coordinates
51.78495, -0.50053
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 14 and 15, also known as Croeso, are a block of two houses located on the west side of Leighton Buzzard Road in Great Gaddesden. They date from the early 18th century or earlier and were renovated in the 19th century. The houses have a timber frame that is infilled with yellow and plum brick, with the ground floor being brick cased. They feature steep old red tile roofs and are 1 and a half stories tall, facing north. Each house has casement windows and four gabled dormers at the eaves. The layout includes two bays for each house, with an internal gable chimney at the west end. There is a lean-to on the west side that reveals an exposed timber-framed gable with jowled posts, straight braces to the tie-beam, and wide spaced timbers infilled with narrower red brick or brick-on-edge infill. The rear is roughcast and has two single-storey lean-to extensions.

Local climate

Numbers 14, and 15 (Croeso) 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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