Timbers and Shangles is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.

Timbers and Shangles

WRENN ID
hallowed-bastion-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1984
Type
House
Address
Timbers and Shangles, Hormead, SG9 0EA
OS grid reference
TL 390 294
Coordinates
51.9465, 0.0214
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Timbers and Shangles is a house, now divided into two houses, dating from the 16th or 17th century. It features a timber frame on a brick sill, with roughcast and 19th-century Gault brick facing on the ground floor front, and red brick with flint at the southern end. The building has a steep old red tile half-hipped roof, with a dark weatherboarded rear wing to the southeast (Timbers) and a southern gable upper part with a steep slate roof.

The structure is two storeys tall, with a cellar and attic, and follows a three-cell internal chimney plan, facing west. The west front has three windows on each floor and a door near the right-hand corner. The southern part (Timbers) features a flush three-light window on each floor, with a casement above, a Yorkshire sliding casement below, and a four-panel flush-beaded door. The northern part (Shangles) has two two-light Yorkshire sliding casements on the first floor, along with two small canted bay windows that have small-paned sash windows and plastered aprons.

There is an external gable chimney on the northern side and an entrance with a six-panel, raised and fielded door that is accessed by two steps, topped with a moulded hood on a shaped bracket.

Local climate

Timbers and Shangles sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • 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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