14, Royal Oak Lane is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House.
14, Royal Oak Lane
- WRENN ID
- dim-keystone-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- 14, Royal Oak Lane, Pirton
- OS grid reference
- TL 149 318
- Coordinates
- 51.97304, -0.32778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 14 Royal Oak Lane is a late 16th-century house that was originally an open hall house. In the 17th century, a floor and chimney were added, and there was a 20th-century extension to the east. The building features a timber frame with roughcast and a steeply pitched roof that is now covered with slate. It is 1 and a half stories tall, with a gable facing the road to the north. The house has three flush casement windows and a swept dormer at the eaves. The former external gable chimney on the east side is now enclosed in the extension, while a separate internal chimney heats the west bay, with a stair beside it. Inside, the house retains exposed timbers, including axial chamfered beams, jowled posts, heavy straight braces to the tie-beams, straight braces in the side walls, and a clasped-purlin roof supported by trusses with collars and queen-struts.
Local climate
14, Royal Oak Lane 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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