Danes is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. House. 6 related planning applications.

Danes

WRENN ID
tangled-timber-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 November 1966
Type
House
Address
Danes, Little Berkhamsted Lane, SG13 8LU
OS grid reference
TL 289 077
Coordinates
51.75397, -0.13378
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a large house dating from the early 18th century, with alterations and extensions in the early 19th century and raised in the early 20th. It is constructed of brick, rendered with scoring to resemble ashlar, and has slate roofs. The building has seven bays in total. The central entrance is located on the garden side and features double doors with a semi-circular fanlight within a plain reveal. On the ground floor to the right are three full-height windows, with flush frame sashes incorporating central French windows. To the left is a large, two-storey canted bay, featuring ground floor full-height windows and a moulded string course to the first floor, with sashes in shallow reveals and a hipped roof. The first floor has four 18th-century glazing bar sashes in shallow reveals with plain rendered lugged surrounds. A plat band is present at the top of the building, supporting small nine-pane sashes with plain rendered surrounds. Boxed eaves are also present. There are end stacks and a cross axial stack to the right of the center. Attached to the right and projecting slightly forward is a two-bay, two-storey 19th and 20th-century service wing with tripartite sashes and a plain parapet; an extruded right-end stack is also present. The left-hand end has an extruded stack with offsets, ground floor small-pane casements, and a first-floor sash. The rear of the building has become the entrance front and features two bays on the left which are three stories high; the entrance has a 20th-century Doric open porch, and two-light small-pane flush frame casements. The two-storey section to the right has a large canted bay. To the far left is an early 19th-century half-glazed door with a reeded surround and a traceried semi-circular fanlight. A hipped lean-to outshuts behind the service wing. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Danes 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 8 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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