Abbots House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.

Abbots House

WRENN ID
long-sill-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Abbots House, 37, Roydon Road, Stanstead Abbots, SG12 8HQ
OS grid reference
TL 388 117
Coordinates
51.78691, 0.01113
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Abbots House is a house dating from around 1600, which incorporates the northern wing of a late medieval house from about 1500. The hall range was rebuilt to be two-storeys throughout. In the early 19th century, the house was given a Gothic appearance, and it features Edwardian bay windows. The structure is timber-framed and stuccoed, with the stucco cut back to expose the frame on the front. It has a steep slate roof and is two-storeys high with attics, measuring three windows long.

The front has a two-storey, stuccoed gabled porch with sash windows on each side on the upper floor, and an arched doorway with a drip mould. The entrance features a six-panel door with a fanlight above. There are five-light small-paned canted two-storey bay windows on either side of the porch, topped with a moulded cornice that supports a flat roof. The roof slope has three small gabled dormers with cusped bargeboards and finials that match the porch. A large central chimney is located to the right of the right-hand bay. The original northern bay has a 19th-century three-light flush casement window with a pointed head and moulded label on each floor.

At the southern end, there is a single-storey slate-roofed stucco extension with a moulded flat door hood supported by shaped brackets. The original house likely had an open hall with a two-storey bay at the northern end, which was probably a parlour. The circa 1600 two-storey house replaced the open hall and incorporated it, providing a chimney shared with the new hall. It likely had a cross-passage aligned with the later porch and an unheated service bay at the southern end, where a single-storey kitchen was added later and has since been rebuilt. The house's Gothic appearance was added in the early 19th century.

Local climate

Abbots House 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 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
  • 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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