Number 85 Including Boundary Wall and Piers is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1973. A C19 Villa. 1 related planning application.
Number 85 Including Boundary Wall and Piers
- WRENN ID
- heavy-courtyard-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1973
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Number 85 Including Boundary Wall and Piers, Port Hill, Hertford, SG14 3ER
- OS grid reference
- TL 323 132
- Coordinates
- 51.80186, -0.08258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 85 is an early to mid-18th century villa. It is constructed of stucco with a brick lining, featuring a gabled roof covered in Welsh slate. The roof has intricately designed barge boards and fascias. A yellow brick chimney is located on the left side, and a prominent stuccoed chimney is on the right, featuring an overhanging modillion cornice and a blocking course. The chimney breast’s design includes three superimposed arched panels with pilasters, semicircular heads and decorative keyblocks.
The villa follows a three-bay front with an L-shaped layout. The upper floor has flush-set French windows with margin glazing on the left and right sides and a central margin-glazed sash window over a projecting gable. A moulded band runs along the first-floor level, while the ground floor features projecting rectangular bay windows with tall three-light casements, each having three panes and a single sidelight, with fretted wood valances. Flat roofs have wooden balcony fronts with stick balusters and nosed toprails. A projecting porch in the centre features three-pane sidelights, a triangular fanlight and a tiled roof with fretted and pierced bargeboards.
The fenestration is irregular on the remaining elevations, incorporating 16-pane sash windows and tall casements. The east-facing elevation, along the boundary, possesses a central arcaded chimney breast as described above, a moulded band at first-floor level, and flush-set glazed sash windows to the ground and first floors on the right-hand side. The interior of the property was not inspected at the time of listing.
Subsidiary features include a boundary wall constructed with brown brick piers and flint panels.
Local climate
Number 85 Including Boundary Wall and Piers 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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