Tannis Court, and Tennis Court House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Tannis Court, and Tennis Court House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-chalk-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tannis Court, and Tennis Court House, Tannis Court Lane, Aspenden, SG9 9PW
- OS grid reference
- TL 337 281
- Coordinates
- 51.93558, -0.05582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tannis Court and Tannis Court House is a house, now divided into two homes, dating from the early 18th century. It was extended at the rear in the early 19th century and late 20th century. The building features composite construction with oak beams and chamfered posts, along with timber-framed partitions, all within brick external walls that include some embedded posts. The exterior is painted and has parallel hipped roofs covered with old red tiles. The rear extensions, known as Tannis Court House, are built of brick in a similar style.
The structure is two stories high, square, and has a double-pile layout, facing south, with extensions at the same height at the rear. It has a central entrance and an end chimney plan, but the large external eastern chimney with offsets appears to be original. The smaller external western chimney likely dates from an early 19th-century refurbishment, which included dentilled eaves and two square two-light casement windows above three round-arched recesses that contain the door, flanked by two small bay windows. Early 18th-century two-light mullioned leaded casements remain on the side walls. This charming small house is of special interest as it illustrates the transition from timber-framed to all-brick construction.
Local climate
Tannis Court, and Tennis Court 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- 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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