Digswell Manor (Including Outbuildings at Rear) is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House. 5 related planning applications.

Digswell Manor (Including Outbuildings at Rear)

WRENN ID
buried-gravel-larch
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
Digswell Manor (Including Outbuildings at Rear), 74, High Street, Ashwell, SG7 5NS
OS grid reference
TL 266 396
Coordinates
52.04066, -0.15514
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Digswell Manor is a house dating from the early to mid-17th century, with attached outbuildings at the rear that were formerly a malthouse. The house features a timber frame with plastered walls and a steeply pitched plain tile roof. It stands two storeys tall and has two late 19th-century flush sash windows. The central entrance is a six-panel door topped with a cut-bracket pedimented hood. The left gable end displays a large exposed red brick stack with battered sides and three joined shafts made of vitrified brick at the angles. The former malthouse consists of two blocks from the 18th to 19th century. The front block has a ground floor made of brick and clunch, with a plastered timber frame upper floor. The rear block features a white brick ground floor and a plastered upper floor, both topped with steeply pitched plain tile roofs. The rear of the house includes one gabled dormer.

Local climate

Digswell Manor (Including Outbuildings at Rear) 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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