Blarney Hollow is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Blarney Hollow
- WRENN ID
- winter-glass-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blarney Hollow, Church End, Rushden, SG9 0SG
- OS grid reference
- TL 305 317
- Coordinates
- 51.96856, -0.1011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blarney Hollow is a house dating back to the 17th century, with a 20th-century extension. The house has a timber frame construction set on a brick base, with rendered walls and a thatched roof. It originally comprised two rooms arranged in a lobby-entry plan. The house is one storey high with an attic. The front facade features a central plank door flanked by two-light casement windows with leaded lights, set in flush timber frames. The attic has similar casements with tiles below the sills, concealed by eyebrow-shaped thatching. A central ridge stack runs across the roof. The left side of the roof is steeply pitched, showing exposed purlins, with an attic window. To the right, the house was extended in the 20th century with two additional bays, projecting forward and having a higher ridge and a gentler roof pitch. A further projecting building, at a right angle to the main house, was added in the 18th or 19th century. This single-storey outbuilding, now attached to the main house, has weatherboarded gable ends. The group value context acknowledges its architectural and historical significance.
Local climate
Blarney Hollow sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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