Caldecote is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. House.
Caldecote
- WRENN ID
- final-spire-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Caldecote, Hilfield Lane South
- OS grid reference
- TQ 156 951
- Coordinates
- 51.64367, -0.3296
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Caldecote is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of rendered brick and features a slate roof. The building is two storeys tall and has three windows, with a central entrance. The windows are glazing bar sashes, and there is a timber verandah with a slate roof on the ground floor, along with a glazed bay to the right. The house has a mutuled eaves cornice and a pediment with an oculus, and there is a flanking coped parapet. The left return has two bays, with French windows and a verandah on the ground floor. At the rear, there is a pediment similar to the front, which is interrupted by a 19th-century canted bay to the right. A central ridge stack is present. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Caldecote sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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