Number 20, The White Horse Public House, Country Properties and Forge View is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. House, public house, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Number 20, The White Horse Public House, Country Properties and Forge View
- WRENN ID
- narrow-bronze-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- House, public house, shop
- Address
- Number 20, The White Horse Public House, Country Properties and Forge View, 22, 24a and 24, High Street, Kimpton, SG4 8RJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 177 183
- Coordinates
- 51.85169, -0.29166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes a terrace of three buildings consisting of a public house, houses, and a shop, located on the north side of Kimpton High Street. The end houses, numbers 20 and 24, date from the early to mid-19th century and are constructed of chequered red brick, with slate roofs. The central section, numbers 22 and 24A, is later 18th century and is built of plain red brick with a plain tile roof, and dentilled brick eaves. The windows of numbers 20 and 24 are glazing bar casements, while number 24 has recessed 8/8-pane sashes with rubbed brick lintels. The central section has three square window bays with flat hoods. A porch in brick was added to number 20 circa 1980. Number 24 has rear extensions built from flint with brick dressings. Four ridge chimney stacks are present.
Local climate
Number 20, The White Horse Public House, Country Properties and Forge View sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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