Bachelors is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Bachelors
- WRENN ID
- pale-floor-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bachelors, Southern Green, Rushden, SG9 0SX
- OS grid reference
- TL 311 317
- Coordinates
- 51.96906, -0.09287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bachelors is a house, originally two dwellings, dating from the mid to late 17th century and altered in the 20th century. It has a timber frame that is rendered and features a half hipped thatched roof. The building has paired two-cell lobby entries and is one storey with attics. The entrance is located in the centre of the right bays, featuring a recessed plank door with flanking two and three light flush frame casements that have leaded panes. In the left bays, the central entrance has been replaced by a single light casement, with two and three light casements on either side. There is a two light dormer to the left of centre. Each group of three bays has two rebuilt ridge stacks at the centre. The right end has a 20th-century ground floor canted bay and a first-floor four light casement, with exposed plates in the broad gable. The left end features a ground floor lean-to addition and a first-floor four light casement. The rear of the house includes one, two, and three light casements, two two light dormers, and a 20th-century addition to the rear left with a half hipped roof. Inside, there is exposed framing and a clasped purlin roof.
Local climate
Bachelors 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings