Holloways is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House.
Holloways
- WRENN ID
- ragged-pilaster-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holloways, Smith End, Barley
- OS grid reference
- TL 399 379
- Coordinates
- 52.02229, 0.03811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holloways is a house that dates from the mid to late 17th century, with extensions made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It has a timber frame set on a brick base, with weatherboarding and rendering. The steeply pitched roofs are mostly covered with machine-made tiles. The house consists of two bays and two storeys, featuring an early continuous lean-to outshut at the rear. The end facing the road has a half hip and an exposed 17th-century brick plinth, along with two-light flush frame small pane casements and visible plates and purlins. There is a catslide roof over the lean-to addition. The right side of the house has a former entrance porch with a raking head and three-light casements to the right. An external stack is located on the rear gable end, leading to a lower 20th-century addition that has three bays, one storey, and an attic, featuring two and three-light casements and an entrance towards the rear, along with a two-light dormer with a raking head. At the rear, there is an additional wing with an old tiled roof. Inside, some of the framing is exposed, showing tension braces and an ogee stop-chamfered bearer.
Local climate
Holloways sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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