31 and 33, Bell Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1972. A C17 Dwelling. 7 related planning applications.
31 and 33, Bell Street
- WRENN ID
- tilted-threshold-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1972
- Type
- Dwelling
- Address
- 31 and 33, Bell Street, Sawbridgeworth, CM21 9AR
- OS grid reference
- TL 483 148
- Coordinates
- 51.81267, 0.14996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building at 31 and 33 Bell Street dates from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is a two-storey timber-framed building, now plastered, with a steep hipped roof covered in old red tiles. The front has three windows. The windows are flush box sashes with moulded architraves; the two western windows have 6/6 panes, and the eastern window has 8/8 panes. A large shopfront from the late 19th century is on the west side, and a smaller, similar shopfront is on the east side, next to which is a six-panel door with an architrave and a moulded flat hood supported on shaped scroll brackets. The east end is weatherboarded on the ground floor and has decorative pargeting on the first floor. A single-storey rear wing extends from the east side, featuring an old tile roof and a large blind gabled dormer rising from the wall plate. A two-storey red-brick rear extension is located on the west side.
Local climate
31 and 33, Bell Street 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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