Old Bellows is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House.
Old Bellows
- WRENN ID
- carved-granite-nettle
- 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
- Old Bellows, Weston
- OS grid reference
- TL 275 286
- Coordinates
- 51.9416, -0.14651
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Bellows is a house dating from the early 18th century, with extensions added to both ends in the 19th century and later in the 20th century. The building features an exposed timber frame with plastered infill on the first floor of the oldest section, painted brick on the northern part, and roughcast on other areas. It has a steep old red tile roof and is a long, two-storey house that was originally oriented to face west but is now entered from the rear.
The oldest part of the house consists of three cells separated by narrow bays for the chimney and entrance/staircase. It has small pane, three-light casement windows, and the entrance has been converted into a window. There is a small chimney on the rear wall of the northern room in the three-cell section. The central hall is heated by an internal chimney with a fireplace at the southern end, and a staircase rises from the northeast corner of this hall. There was formerly a cellar beneath the northern room, which may have served as a parlour. The interior features chamfered axial beams.
Local climate
Old Bellows 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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