Wheelwrights is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Wheelwrights
- WRENN ID
- outer-hinge-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wheelwrights, High Street, Widford, SG12 8RA
- OS grid reference
- TL 420 159
- Coordinates
- 51.82375, 0.05912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wheelwrights is a house dating from the 17th century, located on the west side of High Street in Widford village. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring decorative chevron pargetting in panels on the front. The northern side is weatherboarded and jettied, while the southern end has a modern colourwashed brick wall. The house has a gabled thatched roof with four eyebrow dormers along the front wallhead. It is a long one and a half storeys tall, facing east, with a central chimney positioned one third from the southern end. There are six windows and a door that is off-centre to the north. The entrance features a flat-topped arcaded timber porch in the Jacobean style. The windows are wooden mullions with two and three lights, rectangular leaded glazing, and iron casements, along with two-light dormer windows. The door is made of planks with moulded battens and heart-shaped holes in line. This historic timber-framed house is part of the High Street group in the middle of the Conservation Area.
Local climate
Wheelwrights 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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