Gateway to Lombard House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1973. Gateway.
Gateway to Lombard House
- WRENN ID
- night-window-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1973
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Gateway to Lombard House, Bull Plain, Hertford, SG14 1DT
- OS grid reference
- TL 326 127
- Coordinates
- 51.79744, -0.07831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway to Lombard House is a late 18th-century structure located on Bull Plain in Hertford. It features a wrought-iron gate and screens, supported by Portland stone piers. The gate has spear blade finials on its uprights, braced jambs, and narrow fixed screens on either side and beyond the piers. The square rusticated ashlar piers have projecting plinths, overhanging moulded caps, and fluted urns on square bases. The flattened cyma profile raised lids of the urns do not have the foliated finials that were mentioned in the 1973 listing description.
Local climate
Gateway to Lombard House 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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