Number 15,Set Back Beside Number 17 is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Number 15,Set Back Beside Number 17
- WRENN ID
- standing-gravel-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 15,Set Back Beside Number 17, High Street, Hunsdon, SG12 8NH
- OS grid reference
- TL 416 140
- Coordinates
- 51.80742, 0.05347
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 16th or early 17th century house, later converted to domestic use in the early 19th century. Originally a timber-framed building, it was likely non-domestic in origin. The exterior is characterised by roughcast whitewashed walls with a black weatherboarded apron. It has a steep red pantiled gabled roof and an external red brick chimney on the west side wall. The front gable faces the street, with a central doorway sheltered by a gabled hood, flanked by two small cast iron casement windows with small panes and dripboards on shaped brackets. Two smaller, higher windows are also present in the gable. The east side features two early 19th century wooden windows with rectangular leaded glazing and iron plate casements. Inside, the building retains exposed heavy curved tie beams, with mortices indicating the former presence of braces for a central truss and wind braces for the side purlin roof. It is an interesting timber-framed structure dating from around 1600, which acquired its picturesque appearance in the early 19th century. It forms part of a varied architectural group in the centre of the village Conservation Area.
Local climate
Number 15,Set Back Beside Number 17 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- 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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