Butterfield House is a Grade II* listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1974. Rectory. 1 related planning application.
Butterfield House
- WRENN ID
- fossil-terrace-shade
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1974
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- Butterfield House, 4, Hitchin Street, SG7 6AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 243 338
- Coordinates
- 51.98927, -0.19006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Butterfield House, located at Hitchin Street, was built between 1870 and 1873 by William Butterfield as the Rectory for St. Mary's Church. It is designed in a modified Gothic style and constructed from red brick, featuring bands and patterns of black brick. The building has two storeys, a tiled roof with a brick cornice at the eaves and gables at both ends, and a timber-framed gable positioned left of centre. There are brick chimneystacks with offsets and segmental glazing bars. The left central porch is complemented by a square brick bay on the right side of the ground floor. Butterfield House is part of a group that includes Nos 2 to 16 (even).
Local climate
Butterfield House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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