11 and 13, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1973. House.
11 and 13, West Street
- WRENN ID
- sunken-lantern-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- 11 and 13, West Street, Hertford
- OS grid reference
- TL 323 123
- Coordinates
- 51.794, -0.08167
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
11 and 13 West Street are two houses dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. They are timber-framed and weatherboarded, with the ground floor of No. 13 and the east flank wall of No. 11 plastered. Both houses have old tiled roofs, with No. 11 featuring a hipped front. A tall red brick chimneystack is located at the rear of No. 11, above a modern lean-to roof covered with pantiles, while No. 13 has a square stack.
The exterior is two stories high. The first floor of No. 11 has a 20th-century triple-light wood casement window with glazing bars. The ground floor includes a 20th-century oriel bay window on the left and a single-light casement window on the right, along with scattered modern windows on the east flank. There is a 19th-century four-flush panel door on the ground floor, topped with a hood supported by cut console brackets. The first floor of No. 13 features a three-light casement window with divided glazing, a recessed four-flush panel door on the left, and 20th-century Yorkshire sash windows on the right, all beneath a continuous weatherboard head.
Inside, the ground floor of No. 11 has been opened up, revealing a central beam with mortices for a now-removed partition. The first floor layout has been significantly altered. No. 11 contains a large ground floor fireplace with a timber bressumer and brick cheeks, set diagonally, along with a beam that has a chamfer, stop, and tongue. The first-floor bedroom is ceiled at collar level and features a Queen strut purlin roof with halved and pegged rafters.
Local climate
11 and 13, West Street 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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