Dragons Green (At Corner of Old School Green) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1984. A C17 House, public house. 2 related planning applications.
Dragons Green (At Corner of Old School Green)
- WRENN ID
- tenth-merlon-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1984
- Type
- House, public house
- Address
- Dragons Green (At Corner of Old School Green), Walkern Road, Benington, SG2 7LS
- OS grid reference
- TL 299 239
- Coordinates
- 51.89933, -0.11272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dragons Green, located at the corner of Old School Green, is a house that was once the Green Dragon public house. It dates from the 17th century or earlier and was extended in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame that is roughcast, topped with a steep thatched roof. The exterior includes painted brickwork and thatched roofs.
The house is two storeys high with a three-cell plan, facing south. There is a higher two-storey crosswing from the 19th century on the east side and a one-storey front gabled wing at the southwest. The rear has a lateral chimney, and the eastern bay of the older part has a roof that is lower in height.
The front of the house is asymmetrical, with one window on each floor of the wings and two windows on each floor of the central section. The casement windows are set flush, while there is a flush box sash window with 10 small panes in a 10/10 configuration on the first floor in the middle. The west gable of the older section is dark weatherboarded above a ground floor made of brick and flint. The framework is exposed with close-studding on the sides.
Local climate
Dragons Green (At Corner of Old School Green) 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- 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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