Number 31 (Including Carriage Entrance Abutting on East) is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1949. House.

Number 31 (Including Carriage Entrance Abutting on East)

WRENN ID
third-jade-ivory
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
Number 31 (Including Carriage Entrance Abutting on East), SG7 6AQ
OS grid reference
TL 243 338
Coordinates
51.98879, -0.1905
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 31, which includes a carriage entrance on the east, is a late 18th century red brick front that belongs to a house originally built in the 16th or 17th century. The building features a steeply pitched tiled roof that is set behind a parapet and a cornice made of dentil and moulded brickwork. It has two storeys with a slight central projection. The ground floor has a glazed door set in a fielded panelled reveal, surrounded by Doric pilasters, an entablature, and a pediment. On either side of the door are two wide Neo-Georgian shop windows. The first floor has three 1:1:1 sash windows with glazing bars, set in reveals under flat arches.

To the left, there is a narrow wing that has exposed timber framework. The ground floor features a carriageway, while the first floor oversails on exposed corbels, with plaster infilling between closely spaced posts and a flush two-light lattice casement window. The steeply pitched old tiled roof has a carved cornice. The gates of the carriageway are carved at the top with the initials S (for the surname of the owner) and D E (for the Christian names of the owner and his wife), along with the date 1632.

This building is part of a group that includes Nos 1, 1B, 3, 5, 7, 17, 19, 23, 31, 31A, 33, 33A, 35, and 43 to 57.

Local climate

Number 31 (Including Carriage Entrance Abutting on East) 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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