Westmill Bury is a Grade II* listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Westmill Bury
- WRENN ID
- stony-lime-wren
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Westmill Bury, High Street, SG9 9LH
- OS grid reference
- TL 370 270
- Coordinates
- 51.92527, -0.00765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westmill Bury is a house located in Westmill village, built in the early 18th century, around 1710. It is constructed of red brick and features an old red tile roof. The main block has a double-pile plan, consisting of two storeys, a cellar, and attics, and is five windows wide, facing north and south. There are internal end-wall chimneys and a west wing with a three-room single-pile plan.
The house has three hipped dormers on each front, partially obscured by a brick parapet with a moulded band at the eaves level, which is mirrored at floor level. Both the north and south fronts are symmetrical, each featuring a central doorway and slightly recessed box sash windows with six-over-six panes set under segmental gauged arches. The doors are six-panel fielded types.
The north front includes a pilastered Tuscan doorcase with a full entablature and triangular pediment, while the south front, which faces the garden, has a fanlight and a Doric doorcase with fluted pilasters and an entablature adorned with triglyphs. Inside, there is a fine close string staircase with urn balusters and square newels. Fluted pilasters support an arch with a keystone from the hall to the staircase, and a similar archway with a double keystone leads to the south entrance from the garden. The rooms are paneled in pine, featuring two-panel doors, H-hinges, and moulded cornices.
Local climate
Westmill Bury 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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 2022
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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