52, Port Vale is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Lodge. 3 related planning applications.
52, Port Vale
- WRENN ID
- cold-ashlar-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- 52, Port Vale, Hertford, SG14 3AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 321 129
- Coordinates
- 51.79965, -0.08548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 52 Port Vale is a lodge to 'The Grove', built around 1840, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building is constructed from yellow-grey gault brick and features a hipped Welsh slated roof with a central chimneystack that has three yellow clay pots.
The exterior is a single-storey structure with a canted plan. The entrance is set back beneath a porch supported by chamfered timber columns. There is a recessed 16-pane sash window and a 20th-century half-glazed hardwood door. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
52, Port Vale sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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