4 and 5, Clay End is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1984. A Victorian House.
4 and 5, Clay End
- WRENN ID
- sunken-mortar-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- 4 and 5, Clay End, Walkern
- OS grid reference
- TL 304 249
- Coordinates
- 51.90816, -0.10475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
4 and 5 Clay End is a house that has been converted into two separate homes. It dates back to the 16th century or earlier and was renovated in the mid-19th century in the Gothick style. The building features a timber frame covered in roughcast and has a steep hipped roof with gablets, made of old red tiles. It is two storeys high and has four windows facing west, with No 4 on the south side occupying the lower bay of the hall and the service end.
Each half of the house has a wide 19th-century Tudor arched doorway with a battened door. The windows are three-light cast iron flush lattice casements, and there is a half-octagonal bay window to the left of the door for No 5, as well as a shallow rectangular hipped bay window for No 4. The building has an external rear chimney with two tall octagonal shafts, a similar pair on the central chimney built in the upper bay of the hall, and a large three-shaft external chimney at the north end. Parts of the chimneys were rebuilt in grey brick in the mid-19th century.
Inside, the house features heavy jowled posts, very heavy cambered tie-beams that are chamfered with hollow stops, and close-studding in the rear wall. The floor has chamfered joists inserted in the hall, and there are straight tension braces in the close-studded partition at the lower end of the hall. The hall wallplate includes an edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts. The roof is a clasped-purlin type with curved wind-braces exposed in the upper chambers. This building may have originally served as the rectory house before being replaced by a new one in the High Street in 1632.
Local climate
4 and 5, Clay End 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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