Plume of Feathers Public House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Plume of Feathers Public House
- WRENN ID
- fallow-mortar-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Plume of Feathers Public House, Upper Green, Ickleford, SG5 3YD
- OS grid reference
- TL 182 317
- Coordinates
- 51.9716, -0.28057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Plume of Feathers Public House is a building that originated as a house in the 17th century, with an early 19th-century brick front and a 20th-century rear wing and low extensions. The structure features a timber frame that is roughcast, a red brick front, and roughcast extensions, all topped with steep old red tile roofs. It is a two-storey T-shaped building facing east, with a gabled two-storey rear wing. The main range has a three-cells layout with end chimneys, a small porch, and an entrance located a third of the way from the south. The east front consists of three bays framed by chamfered pilasters and a base, with one window on each floor in each bay. The ground floor has three-light casement windows with cambered arches. Inside, the building features chamfered axial beams.
Local climate
Plume of Feathers Public House 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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- No sale records on file
- 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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