The Piggery at Princess Helena College, Temple Dinsley (240 Metres to South East of Main Entrance Door) at Grid Reference Tl 1829 2471 is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Farm building.

The Piggery at Princess Helena College, Temple Dinsley (240 Metres to South East of Main Entrance Door) at Grid Reference Tl 1829 2471

WRENN ID
graven-granite-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1988
Type
Farm building
OS grid reference
TL 182 247
Coordinates
51.90836, -0.28177
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Piggery at Princess Helena College, located 240 meters southeast of the main entrance door at Temple Dinsley, is a small farm building likely constructed around 1908 by the architect Edwin Lutyens for H.G. Fenwick. This single-storey structure is built from red brick in Flemish bond and features a steep pyramidal roof covered with handmade red tiles. The building has a stable door positioned in the middle of the northwest side and half-round ridge tiles along the hips of the roof. There is a small window on the southeast side, although the lower half of this window is blocked. The eaves project about one foot in the middle of the northeast side. The Piggery serves as an important landscape feature, offering a view of the mansion from the park, and is included for its group value.

Local climate

The Piggery at Princess Helena College, Temple Dinsley (240 Metres to South East of Main Entrance Door) at Grid Reference Tl 1829 2471 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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