Lawrence End is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. Country house.
Lawrence End
- WRENN ID
- worn-bonework-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Lawrence End, Kimpton
- OS grid reference
- TL 142 197
- Coordinates
- 51.86485, -0.34159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lawrence End is a medium-sized country house completed around 1841 in a late Georgian style. It features chequered red brick with banded brick piers extending from the ground to the eaves at the corners. The house has a slate hipped roof and a symmetrical arrangement of 2:3:2 camber-headed sash windows, with the ground floor windows adorned with stucco key blocks. The building consists of two storeys above a cellar and has a floor band. The eaves are moulded, with the centre slightly projecting and supported by modillions.
A stucco Tuscan porch with paired columns and pilasters leads up three steps to a half-glazed door topped by a tall segmental-headed fanlight. The south elevation features a canted window bay, while the rear elevation has five windows, with the right side windows being dummy. The outer windows are triple-hung sashes, and there is a central Diocletian window on the first floor. Inside, there is an 18th-century-style dogleg staircase. A service range adjoins the north side, forming an L shape, and includes six glazing bar casements with a higher two-window centre and hipped dormers at the eaves.
Local climate
Lawrence End sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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