Beams is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House.
Beams
- WRENN ID
- leaning-corridor-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beams, 45, High Street, Ashwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 267 396
- Coordinates
- 52.04104, -0.15275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It features an exposed timber frame and plastered walls, with 20th-century patterned brick infill. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has an 18th-century red brick chimney at the left gable end. The house has two storeys and consists of three bays, with the right bay being an 18th-century extension. The entire front was built up in the 18th century. Inside, the left bay contains a very heavy chamfered floor beam.
Local climate
Beams sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
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