Beacon House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1977. House. 1 related planning application.
Beacon House
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-sill-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beacon House, 15, Deard's End Lane, Knebworth, SG3 6NL
- OS grid reference
- TL 246 206
- Coordinates
- 51.87072, -0.19148
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beacon House is a house dating from 1912, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in a Neo Georgian style. It is constructed of red brick with lighter red brick dressings, featuring a steeply hipped pantile roof and two central rectangular chimney stacks. The house has a square plan and is one storey high with attics. The road-facing elevation, five windows wide, has a central pedimented doorcase, flanked by two flush sash windows on each side; all the doors and windows have shallow panels. Three hipped casement dormers are present. A deep moulded wood eaves cornice runs along the top. The left elevation features a central shaped gable with an arched window, and dormers on either side.
Local climate
Beacon 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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