Oak House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1949. House.
Oak House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-turret-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak House, 22 and 22a, Whitehorse Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 245 339
- Coordinates
- 51.99036, -0.18755
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak House is a late 18th-century building located on the south side of Whitehorse Street. It is constructed of chequered blue and red brick, with red brick dressing. The house features a hipped tiled roof that is set behind a panelled parapet and a brick moulded cornice. It has two storeys and five sash windows with glazing bars, which are set in shallow reveals beneath flat arches. The building includes a plinth and angle pilasters. The central entrance consists of an eight-fielded panelled door topped with a fanlight that has glazing bars, all accessed by three stone steps. To the right, there is a 19th-century shop front. Oak House is part of a group that includes Nos 2 to 20 (even), 20A, 20B, 22, 22A, 24, to 32 (even), and 40 to 44 (even).
Local climate
Oak House 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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