The Straw Hat Restaurant (Near Junction with Chaseways) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1981. Restaurant. 1 related planning application.
The Straw Hat Restaurant (Near Junction with Chaseways)
- WRENN ID
- iron-corner-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1981
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- The Straw Hat Restaurant (Near Junction with Chaseways), Harlow Road, Sawbridgeworth, CM21 0AJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 472 136
- Coordinates
- 51.80177, 0.13476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Straw Hat Restaurant, located on Harlow Road near the junction with Chaseways, is a 17th-century single-storey house with attics. It features a timber-framed structure with chevron panelled pargetting and a steep gabled thatched roof. There is a hipped thatched stable addition at the southern end. The building has two gabled dormers beneath the thatch and a main entrance opposite a large central stack, with a stair adjacent to it. The long service end includes a second fireplace that backs onto a through passage. The northern gable is weatherboarded and shows evidence of a purlin roof. The west front has two plank doors with heavy frames, and a rustic open porch is present at the southern door. The two-light windows are modern. Unstopped chamfered axial beams indicate that a floor was inserted in the 18th century. This building is a picturesque roadside house.
Local climate
The Straw Hat Restaurant (Near Junction with Chaseways) 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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 — 1 application
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- 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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