Douro House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Douro House
- WRENN ID
- carved-gravel-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Douro House, 68, High Street, Standon, SG11 1LB
- OS grid reference
- TL 395 222
- Coordinates
- 51.88102, 0.0267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Douro House is a house dating from the late 17th century with a front made of 18th-century brick and a rear wall of 19th-century brick. It features timber-framed weatherboarded outbuildings at the back and has old red tiled roofs. The house is two storeys high and has a front that is three windows long, constructed from red and blue brick, with a floor band and brick modillion eaves. The sash windows are slightly recessed in moulded frames and sit under flat gauged arches. There is a central fielded-panel door accessed by two steps, set within a moulded doorcase that has a moulded hood supported by brackets. The south gable has brick parapet coping. The rear wall is made of 19th-century red brick, which is continuous with No 66. The outbuildings have steep tiled roofs built using queen-strut construction.
Local climate
Douro 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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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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