The Harrow Public House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Public house.

The Harrow Public House

WRENN ID
grim-rafter-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1988
Type
Public house
Address
The Harrow Public House, St. Paul's Walden
OS grid reference
TL 163 215
Coordinates
51.88005, -0.31068
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Harrow Public House is a building that originated as a house, dating from the 16th century for the northern half and the 18th century for the southern half. The northern half is timber-framed, while the southern half is constructed of brick, both covered in roughcast with a continuous steep old red tile roof. This long building has one and a half stories and faces east onto the green. It features four gabled dormers at the eaves, each with small two-light casements that have small panes. There are two lean-to porches made of painted brick and tiled roofs. The windows have segmental arches, with three fixed lights below two opening lights. The northern part has a broad plank door, and there is a large external chimney on the northern gable, built with offsets in English-bond brickwork. A catslide rear extension is present on the northern part, which serves as living quarters. At the southern end, there is a single-storey outhouse that has been weatherboarded and converted for toilets, although it retains double doors for the rest of the structure. Inside, the framing of the southern wall of the older part is exposed as a screen, featuring holes for wattle infill and a central post.

Local climate

The Harrow Public House 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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