11 and 13, Lower Road is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. House. 1 related planning application.

11 and 13, Lower Road

WRENN ID
hidden-gravel-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1988
Type
House
Address
11 and 13, Lower Road, King's Walden, SG4 8NS
OS grid reference
TL 154 221
Coordinates
51.88565, -0.32384
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A house, dating to the 17th century, was later altered to create two separate houses during the 18th and 19th centuries. The timber frame is exposed on the ground floor, resting on a brick sill, and the exterior is roughcast with a steep roof covered in old red tiles. A section of red brick forms the ground floor on the north end, and a brick and slate rear extension, projecting to the north, was added in the 19th century. The building fronts the roadside facing west and is two stories high, featuring two windows on each floor, with a door located next to the left-hand corner. The windows are flush-faced casements with small panes of glass. A central chimney with two flues is visible, with a later flue added on the west side in the late 18th or 19th century. The building is said to have originally been thatched. Number 11 occupies the northern half of the structure.

Local climate

11 and 13, Lower Road 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2005
  • 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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