Handscombs Ltd Ironmongers is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1962. A C17 Ironmongers. 8 related planning applications.
Handscombs Ltd Ironmongers
- WRENN ID
- carved-mullion-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1962
- Type
- Ironmongers
- Address
- Handscombs Ltd Ironmongers, 11, Bridge Street, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2JX
- OS grid reference
- TL 487 214
- Coordinates
- 51.87177, 0.15995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Handscombs Ltd Ironmongers is an early 17th-century building with a restored pargetted front and an old red tile roof. It stands two storeys high. The ground floor features an impressive early 19th-century double projecting shop front with 40 panes on each side and a double central door adorned with lozenge "chinoiserie" panes. On the first floor, there are three sash windows and one modern oriel window, with four hipped roofs facing the street. The east side of the ground floor has a modern shop front.
Inside, there are exposed ceiling timber beams behind the old shop front, and a plaster ceiling with motifs from the Bishop of London behind the modern shop front. The first floor showcases a significant amount of exposed wall and ceiling timbers, along with some repositioned contemporary oak panelling.
Adjacent to No 11 is an early to mid 19th-century painted brick building, formerly No 9, which is three storeys high and features a one-window elevation with a hipped slate roof. It has double-hung sash windows on the first floor and a single sash window on the second floor.
Local climate
Handscombs Ltd Ironmongers 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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