Myholme is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. Former convalescent home, house.
Myholme
- WRENN ID
- noble-quartz-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1985
- Type
- Former convalescent home, house
- Address
- Myholme, 170, Merryhill Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 140 942
- Coordinates
- 51.63576, -0.35391
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Myholme is a former boys' convalescent home, now a house, built in 1904 and altered in 1911 for Miss E. Somers by architect C.F.A. Voysey. The building is designed in the Arts and Crafts style and features roughcast brick with stone dressings and a hipped tiled roof. It is a long, two-storey rectangular block with a prominent roof.
The front of the building facing the road has a ground floor that includes a blocked door with strap hinges, flanked by three and four-light windows. To the right, there are three three-light windows, all of which are casements with leaded panes, surrounded by stone blockwork and mullions. A tile drip course runs the full length between the storeys. On the first floor, there is a six-light vertical stair window to the left of center, two three-light windows to the left, and a combination of four, two, and one-light windows to the right. The corners of the building are accentuated with battered angle buttresses, and the eaves are boxed. There are ridge stacks near the left end and to the right of center, both with segmental heads.
At the rear, which now serves as the entrance front, there is a gabled entrance porch to the right, flanked by two and one-light windows, along with a tile drip course. On the first floor, there are three single-light windows. The right return from the road features a single bay with four-light windows, while the left return has a ground floor French window and a short wing that projects to the rear left with a separate lower hipped roof. There is a segmental-headed hatch on the ground floor with heart ornamentation on the strap hinges of the door. A linking wall connects to a garage.
Inside, there are heart ornaments on the strap hinges and door plates.
Local climate
Myholme 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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