The Water House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Water House
- WRENN ID
- fallow-foundation-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Water House, Water Lane, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2JZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 487 215
- Coordinates
- 51.8728, 0.15949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Water House is an early 19th-century, two-storey house built of yellow stock brick with a slate roof. It features four windows and has a thin pilaster and cornice surrounding the door on the south elevation. The sash windows are topped with shallow segmental arches and have louvred shutters. The house has a broad, plain eaves cornice and inset rounded angles on the west end, with the north angle featuring a curved sash window. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
The Water House 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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