The Cat and Fiddle (Along Track 1250 Metres from Pelham Road) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. House. 1 related planning application.

The Cat and Fiddle (Along Track 1250 Metres from Pelham Road)

WRENN ID
fallow-roof-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1984
Type
House
Address
The Cat and Fiddle (Along Track 1250 Metres from Pelham Road), SG11 2QX
OS grid reference
TL 407 269
Coordinates
51.92344, 0.04538
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cat and Fiddle is a house located along a track 1250 meters from Pelham Road in Braughing, dating from the early 17th century with alterations made in the later 17th century. It features a timber frame on a brick plinth and is plastered. The house has a steep half-hipped roof covered with pantiles and is one and a half storeys high, designed in a two-unit, lobby-entry layout with a central chimney facing south.

A large red brick chimney with conjoined square shafts is positioned one-third from the west end. The entrance consists of a plank door set in a broad frame, topped with a small flat hood supported by brackets, located in front of the chimney. There is a lean-to roofed dormer to the right of the stack, and the house has several two-light windows: one in the dormer, one below it, another to the left of the door, and upright narrow windows at each end. An attic window is present in the east gable.

The interior includes separate straight stairs at each end, a brick oven with an iron door in the kitchen fireplace, and axial chamfered beams. The small parlour at the east end features chamfered and stopped joists along with a bar-stopped axial beam. Tension braces are visible in the north wall, and wind-braces support the clasped-purlin roof. The western part of the roof was rebuilt in the later 17th century using butt-purlin construction. This building was formerly known as The Cat and Fiddle public house.

Local climate

The Cat and Fiddle (Along Track 1250 Metres from Pelham Road) 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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