15 and 17, Station Road is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1975. A Medieval Residential.
15 and 17, Station Road
- WRENN ID
- floating-rotunda-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 1975
- Type
- Residential
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- 15 and 17, Station Road, Sawbridgeworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 484 151
- Coordinates
- 51.81498, 0.15166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
15 and 17 Station Road is a 16th-century long timber-framed house that has been subdivided. It features a medieval plan with a parlour and hall in No 15, service rooms, and an early 18th-century lower brick rear wing in No 17. A large chimney and floor were likely added to the hall in the 17th century, and an 18th-century stack was added to the east gable. There is a 19th-century slate-roofed lean-to behind No 15, while the main structure has a steep old tile roof with gables. The building has a four-bay clasped purlin construction with wind braces and stands two storeys high, with three windows on each floor and two doors between the windows. The west gable is weatherboarded, and the east gable features modern pargetting on the timber frame. The front is roughcast and painted, with early 18th-century three-light mullioned windows that have a central casement. The first floor has plate casements with rectangular leaded glazing in No 15, while the ground floor has wooden casements. The doors are planked, with the door to No 15 having a shelf above it supported by shaped brackets. The red brick rear wing is built in Flemish bond and includes a plinth, a small leaded window, and a central stack. Between the house and the stack is a 1½-storey space over a deep cellar, featuring a four-light dormer on the west side with a raking roof. Beyond the stack is a kitchen that was open to the roof until around 1950.
Inside No 15, there are old oak plank doors with blacksmith-made hinges on both floors, an early 18th-century corner cupboard in the northwest corner of the parlour, chamfered axial beams and cross beams (cased in the parlour), and a moulded 18th-century wooden fire surround in the parlour. In No 17, the axial beam shows evidence of a partition between the former pantry and buttery. A heavy shaped post in the rear wall may be part of the original rear doorway, and there is a curved tension brace in the rear wall on the first floor along with a blocked window. The property is named 'Springhams' in the deeds.
Local climate
15 and 17, Station Road sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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