Monks Fitchett is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House.
Monks Fitchett
- WRENN ID
- salt-flue-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Monks Fitchett, 2, Kits Lane, Wallington
- OS grid reference
- TL 292 338
- Coordinates
- 51.98799, -0.11927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monks Fitchett is a house from the late 17th century that has been altered and extended. It features a timber frame with pargetted plaster and wood bark tiles on a steeply pitched roof, which was originally thatched. The house has yellow brick stacks. It is a two-cell cottage with a central entrance, extended by one bay to the left. The building has two storeys and three windows. The two right-hand first-floor windows are three-light lattice casements, and there is a timber door. A cross axial ridge stack is located to the left where the original cottage ended, and there is a stack in the right end wall on the rear pitch. The wall plate is visible in the right return wall, and there is a small extension to the rear left. The interior has not been inspected. Notably, George Orwell lived here and served as the village grocer from 1936 to 1940, owning the house until 1947. The name Wallington is thought to be the inspiration for 'Willingdon', the setting for Animal Farm.
Local climate
Monks Fitchett 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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