Old Church House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

Old Church House

WRENN ID
calm-lancet-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 April 1985
Type
House
Address
Old Church House, Gurneys Lane, Holwell, SG5 3SN
OS grid reference
TL 165 333
Coordinates
51.9866, -0.30418
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Church House is a house, now divided into two houses, dating from the 17th century or earlier, and was divided in the late 18th century. It features a timber frame on a stuccoed brick plinth, with a roughcast and a painted brick rear extension that projects to the east. The steep old red tile roof extends down as a catslide over the rear extension. The building is two storeys high and two windows wide, set back from the lane and facing south into an orchard. A large 18th-century internal chimney rises in the middle, just in front of the ridge. The south front has two three-light flush lattice casements on the first floor (with a cast iron lattice casement on the left) and two two-light windows on the ground floor with segmental arched heads. There is a boarded door at each corner with a moulded frame, topped by a gabled tiled hood supported by large S-shaped wooden brackets. A dripboard on brackets is positioned over each window.

Local climate

Old Church House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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