Paynes Park House, 2 Paynes Park and 8 West Alley is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
Paynes Park House, 2 Paynes Park and 8 West Alley
- WRENN ID
- buried-copper-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Paynes Park House, 2 Paynes Park and 8 West Alley, Hitchin, SG5 1EH
- OS grid reference
- TL 182 291
- Coordinates
- 51.94837, -0.28035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Paynes Park House, located at 2 Paynes Park and 8 West Alley, is an early to mid-19th century building. Constructed of red brick, it features a hipped roof covered with Welsh slate and a wide eaves cornice. The building is two storeys high, with projecting sections to the front on the left and to the right of the centre. It has a regular pattern of 1:2:1:1 sash windows in reveals, each with a flat arch above. Arched panels are set into the ground floor windows to the left and right of the centre. The front entrance has a six-panel door, surmounted by a rectangular fanlight with decorative glazing bars, set within a fielded panelled reveal and surrounded by a frame consisting of Doric half columns under an entablature. A modern window has been inserted.
Local climate
Paynes Park House, 2 Paynes Park and 8 West Alley 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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
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