Red House, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. School building.

Red House, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College

WRENN ID
knotted-storey-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
Country
England
Type
School building
Address
Red House, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, London Road, Hertford Heath, SG13 7NU
OS grid reference
TL 358 107
Coordinates
51.7788, -0.03179
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Red House, located at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, is a school building constructed in 1896, likely designed by Reginald Blomfield. Originally serving as the servants' quarters near the kitchen block of the Main Quad, it was converted into masters' quarters by Herbert Baker in the 1930s. The building accommodated the first intake of girls in 1973. It features red brick construction with a steep red tile hipped roof, standing two storeys high with attics and a five-window front facing east. The structure has an offset plinth and tall recessed panels that extend through both storeys to a flat gauged brick arch above the windows on each floor. The recessed sash windows have a 6/9 pane configuration. There are rusticated gauged brick quoins and a continuous band just above the gauged arches. A wide wooden bracketed cornice adorns the oversailing eaves. The central round-topped gable features a Palladian motif dormer window with stone coping and three decorative balls, while a hipped two-light dormer interrupts the cornice on the side.

Local climate

Red House, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 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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