23, Kneesworth Street is a Grade I listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1964. A Circa 1700 House. 1 related planning application.
23, Kneesworth Street
- WRENN ID
- watchful-iron-birch
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1964
- Type
- House
- Address
- 23, Kneesworth Street, Royston, SG8 5AB
- OS grid reference
- TL 355 408
- Coordinates
- 52.04919, -0.02445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
23 Kneesworth Street is a Grade I listed building, originally remodelled around 1700 from an earlier house. It is constructed of red brick with a gabled old tiled roof and consists of two storeys and attics. The garden front features a moulded brick cornice and five sash windows set in flush architrave frames beneath flat arches. The central entrance has a two-fold, six fielded panelled door surrounded by narrow fluted Doric pilasters, topped with a running fret frieze, dentil and modillioned cornice, and a pediment. The street front includes two projecting chimney breasts and a modern doorway with a shell hood supported by consoles and fluted Doric pilasters, along with modern "Queen Anne" style windows and a north wing. Inside, the ground floor has an early 18th-century room with ovolo panelled walls, a semi-circular shell-headed niche, and an original marble chimneypiece. The staircase features a central newel, and there are some stop-chamfered ceiling beams. This building was part of the Royal Palace inhabited by James I and Charles I.
Local climate
23, Kneesworth Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- 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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