Summerhouse in Grounds of Hertford Regional College is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1974. Summerhouse.

Summerhouse in Grounds of Hertford Regional College

WRENN ID
burning-arch-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1974
Type
Summerhouse
Address
Summerhouse in Grounds of Hertford Regional College, Hertford Road, Ware
OS grid reference
TL 357 139
Coordinates
51.80781, -0.03188
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The summerhouse in the grounds of Hertford Regional College dates from the mid-18th century and was restored in the mid-1950s. It was built by John Scott in the ten-acre garden behind Amwell House. This single-storey structure has a timber frame resting on a brick plinth, with colourwashed pebbledash panels and cover pieces at the corners. A moulded wood cornice runs along the top. The central door, originally featuring a flat hood supported by cut brackets, is flanked by small circular windows. The roof is hipped and pyramidal, covered with old tiles and half-round ridge tiles over the hips, topped with a wooden finial.

Local climate

Summerhouse in Grounds of Hertford Regional College 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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