The Woolpack is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House.
The Woolpack
- WRENN ID
- crooked-tin-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Woolpack, London Road (A10), Reed
- OS grid reference
- TL 357 362
- Coordinates
- 52.00835, -0.0243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Woolpack is a house dating from the mid-17th century, which has been altered and extended in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is rendered, topped by a steeply pitched half-hipped thatched roof. The building consists of three bays and is two storeys high. The entrance is located in a 20th-century gabled porch with a tiled head, positioned to the left of centre. To the centre and right, there are three-light flush frame small pane casements, while to the left, there is a 20th-century casement on the ground floor and a two-light casement on the first floor. A ridge stack is situated to the right of centre. The left end has an early one-storey thatched lean-to outshut, which is set back slightly and features two-light casements. The rear of the building has large 20th-century additions that are one and two storeys high. Inside, there is a chamfered brick fireplace surround, a stop-chamfered bearer and fireplace lintel, exposed framing with tension braces, cambered tie beams, and a clasped purlin roof. The Woolpack was formerly a public house, and London Road is known to be the Roman Ermine Street.
Local climate
The Woolpack 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 92% 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 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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