Alpha House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1983. House. 3 related planning applications.
Alpha House
- WRENN ID
- burning-oriel-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Alpha House, 1, Buntingford Road, Standon, SG11 1RT
- OS grid reference
- TL 386 235
- Coordinates
- 51.89309, 0.01367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alpha House is a house dating from the 18th century, which has been cased in yellow stock brick and extended to the rear in the early 19th century. It is likely timber framed beneath the extensive brick cladding. The house features a steep red tiled roof that is concealed by a parapet, along with a low pitched slate roof on the rear wing. The building stands two storeys high with a cellar and has three windows across its front. Red brick gable chimneys are present, with the south chimney projecting.
The symmetrical front has three recessed rectangular panels, with the central panel being narrower. The recessed sash windows have painted reveals, flat yellow gauged brick arches, stone sills, and small panes arranged in patterns of 4/4:3/3:4/4 on the upper floor and 8/8 on the lower floor. A recessed six-panel door, accessed by two steps, features panelled reveals, fluted pilasters, and a moulded cornice on frieze blocks below a painted tympanum that displays the name of the house.
Local climate
Alpha House 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 2005
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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