Laburnam Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.

Laburnam Lodge

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1988
Type
House
Address
Laburnam Lodge, the Green, Preston, SG4 7UD
OS grid reference
TL 179 247
Coordinates
51.90836, -0.28614
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Laburnam Lodge is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with an eastern crosswing added around 1700 and a taller western part from the 19th century. The building features a timber frame covered in roughcast. The crosswing is constructed from plum brick in an irregular Flemish bond, incorporating many blue headers and red and blue segmental arches. It has steep roofs made of old red tiles and is designed in a T-shape with 16 storeys facing north.

The entrance lobby is located beside the chimney at the junction with the eastern crosswing, which has been altered to include a window and an entrance into the western extension. There is a later internal chimney on the western gable before the extension, which also has its own internal chimney on the western gable. The northern front is irregular, featuring two windows at the center and a third, narrower window in a blocked doorway to the left. The house has small-paned casement windows throughout and two gabled dormer windows at the eaves, with the left one slightly projecting over what seems to have been a bay window.

A large T-plan chimney made of narrow brick has a bold corbelled cap. The eastern wing is made of brick and has a steep front gable with a moulded gable parapet supported by corbelled kneelers, a plat band, and a low plinth. There is a moulded cavetto band above a two-light casement window on the first floor, which has a deep segmental arch. A similar window is found on the ground floor, along with a door on the left that has a segmental arch above it, leading to a plank door with a heavy frame. The western extension is taller, standing at one and a half storeys, and features a flat-topped three-light dormer at the eaves, with a three-light casement window below and a plank door to the left, sheltered by a gabled tiled hood on curved brackets. The eastern side of the crosswing has a plat band that steps up over the segmental arch of a window leading to the rear part, along with a blocked doorway and a blocked window at the front. There is a large internal southern gable chimney in the eastern wing.

Local climate

Laburnam Lodge 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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