Old Hammers is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. A Early to mid C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Old Hammers
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-screen-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Hammers, Mill End, Rushden
- OS grid reference
- TL 302 318
- Coordinates
- 51.96968, -0.10524
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Hammers is a house located in Rushden Mill End, dating from the early to mid 17th century. It features a timber frame that is rendered and has a tiled roof. The building has a lobby entry and is arranged in three cells across four bays, standing two storeys high. The entrance is positioned to the left of the centre. Each floor has three three-light casement windows with flush timber frames and leaded lights. The exterior displays panelled pargetting and a T-shaped ridge stack located behind the entrance. There is a small hipped projection on the right end that includes a second entrance. The left gable end is roughcast and has a first-floor two-light casement window with exposed purlins. At the rear, there is a catslide roof over a lean-to outshut, which features a two-light casement window on the left end.
Local climate
Old Hammers sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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 — 1 application
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- 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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