The Old Ram and Hurdle is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House, former public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Ram and Hurdle
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-ember-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House, former public house
- Address
- The Old Ram and Hurdle, Luffenhall, Clothall, SG2 7PX
- OS grid reference
- TL 293 287
- Coordinates
- 51.94196, -0.12035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Ram and Hurdle is a house that was formerly a public house. It has a west wing dating from the 16th century and a main range from the late 17th century, which replaced an earlier open hall. The building features a timber frame with roughcast walls and a plain tile roof. There is a grouped roughcast chimney stack located at the center of the main range. The windows are 1:2 leaded casements, and there is a gabled porch added around 1970. The house has two storeys. Inside, the upper floor of the wing includes an arched braced truss and a clasped purlin roof. The main range features notched chamfer stopped to the bearer, and there is a late medieval cross passage that has been preserved.
Local climate
The Old Ram and Hurdle 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 86% 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 57% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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