The Old Waggon is a Grade II* listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. A C17 House. 4 related planning applications.

The Old Waggon

WRENN ID
heavy-gargoyle-violet
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1967
Type
House
Address
The Old Waggon, High Road, Thundridge, SG11 1AA
OS grid reference
TL 362 185
Coordinates
51.84862, -0.02284
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Waggon is a house that dates back to the late medieval period and features a northern crosswing. It has a timber frame that is plastered, with a weatherboarded apron and a jettied upper floor on the wing. The building is topped with steep old red tile roofs. The hall range is short and one and a half storeys high, featuring a flat-topped dormer and a door to the left of a lower window. The higher two-storey crosswing has one window on each floor and two external chimney stacks on its northern side. The windows are 20th-century flush types with glazing bars and a horizontal proportion, and there is a boarded door. Inside, there is an inserted floor in the hall from the early 17th century, which includes an axial chamfered beam with a bar and hollow stop, along with exposed square joists. A contemporary inserted chimney features wall paintings above the fireplace, depicting flowers and fruit in foliage, coloured and outlined in black on an ochre background.

Local climate

The Old Waggon 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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