West Field is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House.
West Field
- WRENN ID
- silent-chancel-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- West Field, Hitchin Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 214 313
- Coordinates
- 51.96778, -0.23327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Field is a house built in 1904-1905 by the architect Halsey Riccardo. It is one of a pair of identical houses, the other being Elm Tree House on Letchworth Lane. The building is two and a half storeys tall and features a double-fronted design with three windows and a central gabled entrance bay. The roof is tiled, and there is a brick stack with a moulded cap. The house is constructed of gault brickwork, specifically Arlesey White bricks, which are rarely used in Letchworth for aesthetic reasons. The gables are weather-boarded, and there are brick arches above the segmental arched openings. The windows are mullioned casement types, with transoms on the ground floor and glazing bars. The entrance has a half-glazed door, and there is a one-storey hipped service range at the rear.
Local climate
West Field 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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