The Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Almshouse.
The Retreat
- WRENN ID
- stony-wattle-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- The Retreat, Scholar's Hill, Wareside
- OS grid reference
- TL 399 159
- Coordinates
- 51.82481, 0.02887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat is a building that was originally constructed as almshouses and is now a house. It dates from the 18th century and was in existence by 1788. The structure features a timber frame that is roughcast, topped with a thatched roof. It has a lobby entry and a central chimney, with a two-room plan and one and a half storeys. There are later lean-to extensions at both ends, which have red tile roofs. The modern gabled porch is roughcast and centrally located, flanked by a small two-light casement window on each side. The building also has three gabled conjoined thatched dormers, each with a two-light casement. A large red brick chimney is situated at the center of the house, which is set in a picturesque hilltop position.
Local climate
The Retreat sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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