Sharmane the Old Brewhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. A C17 House.
Sharmane the Old Brewhouse
- WRENN ID
- woven-pillar-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sharmane the Old Brewhouse, 18, Cole Green, Hertingfordbury
- OS grid reference
- TL 282 114
- Coordinates
- 51.78663, -0.1425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Brewhouse and Sharmane are two houses located in Hertingfordbury, dating from the early to mid-17th century, possibly constructed in two phases, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. The buildings feature a timber frame with stucco that has been incised to resemble ashlar, and they have tiled roofs. The structure consists of five bays and is two storeys high.
No. 18, The Old Brewhouse, has a three-bay lobby entry on the right side. The ground floor includes a stock brick plinth and an entrance located to the right of centre, featuring a panelled door with a bracketed hood above an architrave. The windows consist of small pane moulded flush frame casements, arranged as 1, 3, and 2 lights. No. 20, Sharmane, is to the left and has a central entrance with a half-glazed door and a bracketed hood above an architrave, flanked by two-light casements. On the first floor, there are five two-light small pane casements.
The buildings have cross axial ridge stacks located behind the right entrance and at the centre, with an external stack at the left end that features offsets. At the rear of No. 20, there is a full-height projecting stair wing with a ground floor entrance and a first-floor two-light casement, along with flanking lean-to outshuts. The rear of No. 18 includes a later two-storey, one-bay gabled wing with a stack to the right and an entrance in a lean-to porch. Attached to the right gable end, which is clad in 20th-century brick, is a lower 20th-century addition.
Inside, there is exposed framing with jowled posts and curved braces. No. 20 has not been inspected.
Local climate
Sharmane the Old Brewhouse 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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