Simons Close is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House.
Simons Close
- WRENN ID
- blind-wall-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Simons Close, Fore Street, Weston
- OS grid reference
- TL 259 303
- Coordinates
- 51.95747, -0.16891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Simons Close is a house that dates back to the 17th century or earlier, with southwest and north extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame on a stuccoed brick base, with roughcast walls and steep old red tile roofs. The house is L-shaped and set back from the road, facing east.
The main part of the house is 1 and a half stories high and includes a hall range with a rear wall chimney that has one diagonal shaft. There is a lower north extension with an external gable chimney. The south crosswing is tall and two stories, projecting significantly to the front, and has a large internal chimney with a moulded base and three square diagonally set shafts along the roof ridge. There is also a narrower two-story southwest extension.
The hall range features two windows and two corresponding gabled dormers at the eaves, with three-light leaded casement windows and two-light dormers. A plank door is located in a gabled roughcast porch at the center. The front gable of the crosswing has a three-light window on each floor.
Local climate
Simons Close 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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