Bacon's House and Number 84 (Including Attached Outbuildings) is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. House and shop.

Bacon's House and Number 84 (Including Attached Outbuildings)

WRENN ID
riven-brick-finch
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 and shop
Address
Bacon's House and Number 84 (Including Attached Outbuildings), 82 and 84, High Street, Ashwell
OS grid reference
TL 266 396
Coordinates
52.04045, -0.15559
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bacon's House and Number 84, which includes attached outbuildings, is a house and shop that dates from the 17th century or earlier and was refronted in the mid-19th century. The building features a timber frame with a roughcast left gable end for Number 84 and painted brick on the right. It has a steeply pitched plain tile roof and is two storeys high with an attic. The front has four recessed 8/8-pane sash windows with gauged brick lintels and roll-moulded jambs. The door of Number 82 has a heavy brick surround with roll-moulded piers and a shaped cornice, featuring a moulded panel door with a 2-light fan above. Number 84 has a mid-19th century shop front with a half-glazed door and a 15-pane window, along with roll-moulded architraves with paterae and a cornice hood. There is a 17th-century leaded casement window in the left return gable end. Extending from the rear of Number 84 is a mid-19th century barn made of white brick with a slate roof and four small casements. At the rear of Number 82, there is a roughcast 17th-century gable end with various windows, including a 17th-century 2-light leaded attic casement. The barn extension on this side features plank doors alternating with sash windows on the ground floor.

Local climate

Bacon's House and Number 84 (Including Attached Outbuildings) 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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