Poplar Villa is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Poplar Villa
- WRENN ID
- sunken-corner-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Poplar Villa, Babb's Green, Wareside, SG12 7SH
- OS grid reference
- TL 396 171
- Coordinates
- 51.83537, 0.026
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Poplar Villa is a house dating from around 1700. It features red brick end walls, while the front and rear walls were originally timber-framed and are now plastered. The house has a steep old red tile roof that extends down over an original outshot at the rear. It is a symmetrical two-storey building with an attic, facing south, and has a two-room end chimneys plan with a winding stair that was formerly located in the southwest corner.
Notable architectural details include fine brickwork in the gable walls, which is laid in Flemish bond with random blue headers. The building has a chamfered plinth, raised bands at the first floor and eaves height, and a brick-on-edge cable parapet with corbelled kneelers. The chimney rises slightly to the rear of the apex, and there is a small square attic window. On the west side, there is a central small recess intended for a plaque. Inside, there is a chamfered axial beam with ogee stops. The front of the house has three windows and features a gabled porch.
Local climate
Poplar Villa 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 — 4 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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