Willowthorpe is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Willowthorpe
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-glass-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willowthorpe, High Street, Stanstead Abbots, SG12 8AS
- OS grid reference
- TL 382 119
- Coordinates
- 51.78882, 0.00287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willowthorpe is a house built in the later 19th century, specifically said to have been constructed in 1864 by Italian contractors. The building is made of mass concrete with a stucco finish that is lined to resemble ashlar. It features gabled slate roofs and is two stories tall with three windows facing south. The house has an H-plan layout with parallel gabled wings, a narrower gabled center, and a one-story parapetted porch.
The windows are recessed sash types, with a rectangular bay window and a canted bay window flanking the porch on the ground floor, and an additional canted bay on the left return. The porch parapet displays the coat of arms of the Ker family, along with the motto "PRO CHRISTO ET PATRIA DULCE PERICULUM." The gables are adorned with bargeboards, and there are one-story outbuildings at the rear. This 19th-century stucco villa is set in its own grounds by the riverbank and has seen little alteration, making it of special interest for its early use of mass-concrete construction.
Local climate
Willowthorpe 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 — 1 transaction since 2001
- 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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