The Robin Hood Public House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Robin Hood Public House
- WRENN ID
- night-trefoil-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Robin Hood Public House, 14, Ware Road, Bengeo Rural, SG12 0HN
- OS grid reference
- TL 334 171
- Coordinates
- 51.83743, -0.06512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Robin Hood Public House is a building that was originally two dwellings, dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with extensions from the 18th century and alterations in the 19th century. It features a timber frame with a brick plinth and a rendered and whitewashed left gable end. The building has a steeply pitched slate roof and was originally designed with two cells, possibly an open hall, which has been extended by two bays to the right. It is one storey with an attic.
The main entrance is a half-glazed door with a small bracketed hood, flanked by three-light small pane horizontal sliding sashes in flush moulded frames. To the right, there is a second entrance and a small tripartite sash window in a flush frame. Above the original entrance, there is a two-light gabled dormer just above the eaves, and to the right, a similar dormer is set higher. The left gable end features a two-light attic casement with a cambered head. There is an external stock brick stack and an internal red brick stack at the right end, along with two gabled dormers on the rear.
Inside, the building has exposed framing, with jowled posts supporting cambered tie beams and curved windbraces. Attached to the left and set back is a one-storey outbuilding, now functioning as a shop, which has a large front window and door, and a hipped tiled roof. To the right of this outbuilding is a knapped flint bay with pantiles, while the inner elevation features red brick, stock brick, and weatherboarding.
Local climate
The Robin Hood Public 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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