The Knole is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Knole
- WRENN ID
- under-groin-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Knole, New Inn Road, Hinxworth, SG7 5HE
- OS grid reference
- TL 235 402
- Coordinates
- 52.04654, -0.19928
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Knole is a late 17th or early 18th century house. It is timber-framed with plastered walls and a 20th-century pantile roof. The house is one storey high with attics. There are four 20th-century metal frame casement windows. A central 19th-century half-glazed door provides access. A gabled dormer window is positioned to the left. A 17th-century chimney stack rises on the rear slope of the roof. The plan is four bays wide. The left-centre bay contains a large inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
The Knole sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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