The Victoria Public House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1974. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
The Victoria Public House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-cornice-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1974
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Victoria Public House, 2 4, Star Street, Ware, SG12 7AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 360 141
- Coordinates
- 51.80973, -0.02723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Victoria Public House, with living accommodation above, dates to the 17th century, with 18th and 19th century alterations. It is composed of three ranges. The left-hand wing (No. 4) was built in the mid-19th century. It is brick, now colourwashed, and has a gable facing the road. The ground floor has one recessed sash window with bars dividing the long side panes, and four inner panes in each sash. The right-hand range (No. 2) is from the 17th century and was altered in the early 19th century. It is timber-framed, plastered, pebbledashed and colourwashed, with an old tiled roof featuring moulded, cusped and fretted bargeboards. A large central red brick chimneystack has oversailing courses. The first floor has two nearly flush sash windows, subdivided similarly to the ground floor window of the left-hand wing, with a matching window on the left of the ground floor. There are also two linked 19th-century sashes to the right. A recessed half-glazed door from the 19th century is centrally located, and there is another half-glazed door from the same period on the right-hand side elevation. The south range, facing the river, dates to the 18th century and is red brick, with a hipped old tiled roof behind a parapet. It has four sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor, recessed in reveals beneath rubbed flat arches. 20th-century flat-roofed extensions are on the ground floor.
Local climate
The Victoria Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 transactions since 2006
- 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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