Numbers 1-8 Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. A Victorian Almshouses. 9 related planning applications.
Numbers 1-8 Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- tired-passage-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Numbers 1-8 Almshouses, Tower Hill, Much Hadham, SG10 6DL
- OS grid reference
- TL 427 189
- Coordinates
- 51.8509, 0.07158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 1-8 Almshouses, rebuilt in 1866, are located on Tower Hill in Much Hadham village. Constructed in a Tudor style, they are built of red brick with stone dressings and have an old tile roof, half-hipped at the ends. The building is single-storied. The street elevation features three doorways with moulded 4-centre arches, and four sets of 2, 2-light, diamond-leaded casement windows. A fourth entrance is contained within a projecting gabled porch on the south end, which has a tiled roof and a raised date plaque above the door. Four tall chimneystacks are present, each with chamfered corners and angled dentils.
Local climate
Numbers 1-8 Almshouses sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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