Numbers 5, 5a, 7 and 7a, New Road is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1974. A N/A Residential units.

Numbers 5, 5a, 7 and 7a, New Road

WRENN ID
deep-arch-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1974
Type
Residential units
Period
N/A
Address
Numbers 5, 5a, 7 and 7a, New Road, Ware
OS grid reference
TL 359 143
Coordinates
51.81092, -0.02961
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 5, 5A, 7, and 7A on New Road is a former service wing to Nos 1A, 2, 2A, and 2B East Street, now converted into four residential units. This building dates from the 18th century and has been altered in the 19th century and early 1980s. It is constructed of red brick, with the northern bay rebuilt in yellow brick. The building features a cornice band, a parapet with stone coping, and an old tiled roof. There are two outer dormers with segmental lead roofs and two inner dormers with gabled tiled roofs, all fitted with lead-glazed casement windows with rectangular quarries, which were rebuilt during the 1980s conversion.

The facade has six first-floor windows that are irregularly spaced. The leftmost window remains in the rear of No. 2 East Street, and all first-floor windows are recessed sash windows with glazing bars, set under segmental arches, and were replaced in the 1980s. The ground floor is stucco-faced below a brick plat band and has four sash windows with glazing bars under segmental arches, along with four modern six-panel doors that are recessed with plain fanlights above, all installed during the 1980s conversion. This long, narrow range is one room deep and was originally built by the Dickinson family as a service wing to their main house facing East Street. The rear elevation of the building faces Bluecoat Yard.

Local climate

Numbers 5, 5a, 7 and 7a, New Road 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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