Laxton is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Laxton
- WRENN ID
- hidden-corner-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laxton, 85 and 87, Langley Hill, Kings Langley, WD4 9HJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 066 026
- Coordinates
- 51.71237, -0.45823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 85 and No. 87 are two houses that were originally a single house, dating from the 17th century or earlier. The building features a later inserted floor and an internal chimney, with a brick facade added in the 18th or 19th century. The structure has a timber frame that is cased in red brick, with the frame exposed and plastered panels at the south end, while the north end has brick infill. It has a steep old red tile roof and large external gable chimneys at each end. The house is 1½ storeys tall and faces west, featuring two gabled dormers at the eaves. The ground floor has three small-pane, 2-light Yorkshire sliding casement windows with segmental arches and two battened doors between them. There is a dentilled brick eaves course and flint panels at the north end. The roof is a clasped-purlin type with diminished principals.
Local climate
Laxton 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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