Tallents is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. House. 1 related planning application.

Tallents

WRENN ID
woven-arch-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1984
Type
House
Address
Tallents, Kimpton Bottom, SG4 8EU
OS grid reference
TL 159 178
Coordinates
51.84699, -0.31744
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tallents is a house dating to the late 16th or early 17th century, originally constructed with an exposed timber frame and red brick infill. It was restored in the 20th century. The ground floor was extended forward in the 18th century using chequered red brick. The roof is covered in plain tiles and features three 19th and 20th century chimney stacks constructed from purple brick. A gable end is located on the right side. The house has two storeys and five large, leaded casement windows. Internally, the roof retains original wind braces. A converted 17th-century barn, weatherboarded in appearance, adjoins the rear, eastern end. A gabled porch with a slate and glass window, dated to around 1980, is also present.

Local climate

Tallents 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 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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