14, 16 and 18, Knight Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.
14, 16 and 18, Knight Street
- WRENN ID
- spare-span-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 14, 16 and 18, Knight Street, Sawbridgeworth, CM21 9AT
- OS grid reference
- TL 483 149
- Coordinates
- 51.81359, 0.1513
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
14, 16, and 18 Knight Street comprise a group of buildings dating to the later 16th century and the early 18th century. Number 16 is a two-bay house from the late 16th century, and number 18 is partially contemporary with it. Number 14 was built in the early 18th century. The buildings are timber-framed and plastered, with steep gabled roofs covered in old red tiles. They are two storeys and attics in height.
Number 14 has an internal gable chimney on the south side, a two-light 19th-century casement window in its north gable illuminating the attic, a moulded eaves cornice, and two early 18th-century flush box sash windows on the first floor, each containing 6/6 panes and thick glazing bars. A similar window is located north of the front door on the ground floor. A flat hood rests above the front door, supported by shaped brackets. A single-storey plastered rear wing has a roof of old red tiles.
Number 16 features a large gable facing the street, a large projecting 19th-century plastered oriel on the first floor, and a three-light square bay window of lesser projection below it. The windows are sash windows. It includes one early 19th-century sash window in the attic, with glazing bars, and four-light and single returns of later 19th-century sashes to the first-floor oriel. Similar sashes are present in the three-light bay window on the ground floor. A door with a bracketed hood is located below the oriel on the south side.
Number 18 contains a large gabled box dormer with an early 19th-century sash window. It has two windows on each floor, with sash windows containing glazing bars. A door is accessed by ascending three steps, beneath a moulded flat hood supported by shaped brackets. A low plinth is visible at the front. The group of buildings is important to the street views from the north.
Local climate
14, 16 and 18, Knight Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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