Old Sextons is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. A C16 House. 3 related planning applications.
Old Sextons
- WRENN ID
- kindled-sandstone-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Sextons, Church End, Sandon, SG9 0QX
- OS grid reference
- TL 322 344
- Coordinates
- 51.99314, -0.07597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Sextons is a house that was formerly a church house, dating from the early to mid 16th century and altered in the 18th century. It features a timber frame on a brick base with a roughcast finish and a tiled roof. The building consists of three cells and is two storeys high, with jetties on three sides.
The entrance front has a door located to the left of centre, flanked by small casement windows with flush frames. Further to the right, there is a 12-pane horizontal sliding sash window, another entrance, and a two-light casement at the far right, where the jetty is underbuilt. On the first floor, there are one and two-light casements as well as two horizontal sliding sashes, with curved brackets supporting the jetty. The left end facing the road features dragon beams, a ground floor two-light casement, and a hipped roof.
At the rear, there is a ground floor horizontal sliding sash and two single-light casements, along with a red brick projection, likely an oven, topped with tile coping. The first floor has one and two-light casements and a horizontal sliding sash. An 18th-century red brick internal stack has been relocated behind the ridge between the two bays closest to the road. The right gable end is unjettied, exposing the plates and purlins. Inside, the building showcases close studding, braces from jowled posts, and moulded timber lintels above two fireplaces.
Local climate
Old Sextons 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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