1 and 3, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1981. A 16th century House. 2 related planning applications.
1 and 3, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- half-stone-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1981
- Type
- House
- Period
- 16th century
- Address
- 1 and 3, Church Street, Sawbridgeworth, CM21 9QA
- OS grid reference
- TL 484 148
- Coordinates
- 51.81235, 0.15157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 1 and 3 on Church Street are an early 16th-century special purpose building that was originally unheated and featured a single large room on the first floor, along with a narrower rear wing at the northeast. It was likely subdivided for domestic use in the 17th century. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a steep old red tile roof that has hipped plastered eaves soffits. There are external gable chimneys built in English bond. The building has two storeys and four windows. The front displays panelled chevron pargetting, with late 17th or early 18th-century three-light wooden casements that are both mullioned and transomed. The door to No 1 is from the 18th century and features a bracketed flat hood, while No 3 has a 19th-century shopfront. The rear wing is timber-framed, with parts weatherboarded and plastered, consisting of two bays and an internal stack. Inside No 3, the ground floor ceiling reveals heavy roll-moulded cross beams and wave-moulded, bar-stopped joists and axial beams from the 16th century.
Local climate
1 and 3, Church Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 — 2 transactions since 2020
- 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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