The Vineyard is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1977. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Vineyard
- WRENN ID
- idle-granite-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Vineyard, 3, St Leonards Road, Hertford
- OS grid reference
- TL 329 135
- Coordinates
- 51.80478, -0.07289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century cottage, altered and extended in the later 19th century and again in 1993-94. The cottage is constructed of stuccoed brickwork with flint and yellow brick quoins, featuring a thatched reed roof with a block patterned ridge, and slate roofs with lead roll hips. It is built in a picturesque style. The building is single and two-storied, with the first floor partially sunk into the ground at the rear due to the site’s slope, forming a rectangular structure with canted ends. The front of the cottage has three flush-set 12-pane sash windows, while the rear has two 12-pane sash windows. The thatched roof extends broadly over the ends, reflecting a polygonal plan. The ground floor front retains some channelled rustication and features a central semicircular headed window. A two-story lean-to extension from the late 19th century is present on the right side, alongside large 20th-century extensions that incorporate an octagonal pavilion matching the form of the original cottage. The interior includes an octagonal first-floor room with a modillioned plaster ceiling cornice.
Local climate
The Vineyard 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 — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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