Gothic House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. House. 2 related planning applications.

Gothic House

WRENN ID
old-bailey-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 May 1968
Type
House
Address
Gothic House, Pondside, Graveley, SG4 7LG
OS grid reference
TL 230 278
Coordinates
51.93541, -0.21198
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gothic House is a house dating from the late 17th century, with Gothic features added in the 18th century. It has a parallel rear range from the 18th or 19th century. The building is timber-framed, covered in roughcast, and sits on a stucco plinth. It has a steep old red tile roof with projected front eaves. The house is two stories tall with an attic and is positioned on a bank overlooking the village pond, facing east. The near-symmetrical east front has features slightly offset to the left to accommodate a large internal chimney on the north gable.

The front has three windows and an entrance in the middle between the ground floor windows. All windows are large pointed two-light flush casements with intersecting glazing bars at the heads, small panes, and external louvred shutters. There is a canted oriel window above the door, supported by a canted cove, with smaller pointed side-lights. The entrance features a four-panel fielded door, with the top two panels glazed and a four-centred arched head in a narrow moulded frame. This is flanked by bold rusticated pilasters and blocks of entablature around the arched head of the doorway. A chimney is located on the south half of the house, with a lower rear wing behind. The roof appears to have three structured bays.

Local climate

Gothic House 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 84% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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