Guild House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Guild House
- WRENN ID
- vast-barrel-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Guild House, 55, High Street, Ashwell, SG7 5NP
- OS grid reference
- TL 267 396
- Coordinates
- 52.04078, -0.15339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Guild House is a house built in 1681, as indicated by the date in the pargetting. It serves as infill between earlier houses on either side. The structure features a timber frame with plastered walls, and the upper floor is adorned with deep pargetted patterns in rectangular panels, depicting scrolled foliage and a dragon. The building has two storeys and includes one glazing bar casement. There is a door on the left side with a simple cut bracket hood. The right side of the house displays weatherboarding on the ground floor, and there is a 17th-century brick stack on the rear slope of the roof.
Local climate
Guild 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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