5, Crabtree Lane is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 1 related planning application.

5, Crabtree Lane

WRENN ID
crooked-granite-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1988
Type
House
Address
5, Crabtree Lane, Pirton, SG5 3QE
OS grid reference
TL 147 317
Coordinates
51.9724, -0.33127
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 5 Crabtree Lane is a former Red Lion Inn, now a house, dating from the 17th century or earlier. The northwest wing and west front have been altered, and there is a southeast extension from the mid to late 19th century. The building features a timber frame with exposed timber and plastered panels only at the rear, along with a roughcast and painted brick rear outshut, topped with old red tile roofs.

The house is two storeys tall and two windows wide, facing west. It has a single-storey half-hipped extension set back on the right-hand side, with an entrance under a hipped porch in the angle. The front has flush box sash windows with three panes each. A view from the south reveals that the original part of the building is a one-and-a-half-storey range positioned at right angles to the road, featuring a half-hipped steep roof and a small gabled dormer on the south roofslope with a two-light casement. There is an internal south sidewall chimney in the west bay. The south gable has been refaced when a two-storey short gabled north extension was added, which includes an external gable chimney on the north side.

Local climate

5, Crabtree Lane 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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