Crabtree House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.

Crabtree House

WRENN ID
knotted-niche-gilt
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1988
Type
House
Address
Crabtree House, 2, Crabtree Lane, Pirton, SG5 3QE
OS grid reference
TL 146 317
Coordinates
51.97237, -0.33206
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a late 16th-century house, altered in later periods. It is timber-framed and rests on a black stuccoed sill, with roughcast exterior. The roof is steeply pitched and covered in old red tiles. The house is L-shaped and set back from the road facing east, with a long, slightly lower, north crosswing. A stair wing is located in the rear angle, and a large internal chimney is situated at the junction of the wings; a later internal south gable chimney is also present.

The main east front has a door with a gabled, tiled open porch located next to the left-hand corner, and a window in the gable end of the crosswing. There are three three-light casement windows on the first floor, and a smaller window in line with the central chimney, featuring four conjoined tall diagonal shafts. Matching shafts are visible on the south gable chimney.

Inside, the house features jowled posts, long straight tension braces in the walls and cross-walls, and clasped-purlin roofs. Original plank doors retain old iron fittings. A segmental arched, chamfered brick fireplace sits within the chamber above the hall. The house was likely originally entered via a lobby by the stack, prior to the formation of the two present entrances.

Local climate

Crabtree 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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