Walls, Gates and Piers of An Enclosure at Orchard House Along Roadside and Surrounding the Property is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Enclosure. 4 related planning applications.
Walls, Gates and Piers of An Enclosure at Orchard House Along Roadside and Surrounding the Property
- WRENN ID
- winding-spire-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Enclosure
- Address
- Walls, Gates and Piers of An Enclosure at Orchard House Along Roadside and Surrounding the Property, Acorn Street, Hunsdon
- OS grid reference
- TL 416 131
- Coordinates
- 51.7991, 0.05318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The remains of a late 16th-century red brick walled enclosure, originally a walled garden for Nine Ashes. The enclosure now surrounds the grounds and house at Orchard House. The road frontage is in English bond brickwork, featuring a decorative pattern of black headers, with the upper section having been rebuilt. There is a blocked doorway with a timber lintel. A short, low projecting plinth runs along part of the wall. A modern semicircular embayment with gates and four piers provides an entrance. The enclosure is believed to be a surviving feature from either Sir Thomas Forster's late 16th-century house or an earlier building he altered. It forms an important part of the roadside setting alongside the buildings of Nine Ashes Farm, and the route to the church and Hunsdon House.
Local climate
Walls, Gates and Piers of An Enclosure at Orchard House Along Roadside and Surrounding the Property sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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