Ashburn is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Ashburn
- WRENN ID
- empty-parapet-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ashburn, 3, Burge End Lane, Pirton, SG5 3QN
- OS grid reference
- TL 143 322
- Coordinates
- 51.97724, -0.33633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashburn is a late 17th-century house that has been renovated and extended. A south wing was added in 1984. The house is timber-framed with a red brick sill, plastered over with roughcast, and has a steep roof covered in old red tiles. The 1984 crosswing is roughcast with a dark weatherboarded first floor. It is a small, two-storey house facing east with two windows on each floor. It has external gable chimneys to the front and a central post to the gable. The casement windows have been renewed. An entrance is provided by a single-storey tiled porch on the south side of the crosswing. The interior features exposed timbers, including jowled posts, a mid-height rail, thin studs, long straight tension braces, and a roof with clasped purlins and inclined queen-posts to the central truss.
Local climate
Ashburn 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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