St Martin's Place is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. House.
St Martin's Place
- WRENN ID
- distant-sentry-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- St Martin's Place, Church Lane, Preston
- OS grid reference
- TL 179 247
- Coordinates
- 51.90909, -0.28648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St. Martin's Place is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with a brick front added around 1700. The west bay was cased in the 19th century. It features a timber frame and tile-hung gable at the west end, which is cased in thin red brick arranged in an irregular Flemish bond. The western part of the house is built in regular red brickwork. This 1½-storey house has a three-cell layout with an internal chimney and a lobby-entry plan, facing south, and the chimney is located a third of the way from the eastern end. There is a lean-to brick extension at the west end, which is slated.
The house has three windows across the front, with two gabled dormer windows at the eaves on the south side. Above the segmental window arches, there is a plat-band, and the windows are fitted with two-light flush small-pane casements that have been renewed to be wider. To the left of the entrance, there is a small two-over-one casement above the plat-band, which likely lights a staircase. The T-shaped chimney has a corbelled cap and is aligned with a four-panel ovolo-moulded and fielded door, where the top panels have been glazed. This door is set in a heavy frame and is sheltered by a tiled gabled timber porch. Inside, the lobby features exposed joists and beams.
Local climate
St Martin's Place 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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