4-6, Walnut Tree Road is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 8 related planning applications.
4-6, Walnut Tree Road
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-mullion-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- 4-6, Walnut Tree Road, Pirton, SG5 3PX
- OS grid reference
- TL 148 316
- Coordinates
- 51.97176, -0.3294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building at 4-6 Walnut Tree Road comprises two adjoining houses. The northern house, number 4, dates from the early 18th century, while the southern house, number 6, was built in the early 19th century. Number 4 is timber-framed and has a stuccoed sill; the exterior timbers are exposed and the front is clad in plastered panels. It has a steep-pitched thatched roof with decorative ridge detailing. House number 6 is roughcast and has a low-pitched slate roof.
Facing east along the roadside, the two houses form a group that is five windows wide; number 4 is one and a half storeys high, while number 6 is two storeys and two windows wide. Number 4 features heavy bay posts and long, straight tension braces. There are two double and two single eyebrow dormers at the eaves, each containing two-light casement windows with small panes. A framed plank front door is located near the middle of the building, with end chimneys. Number 6 has two-light casement windows with flush small-panes; these include a three-light window at the southern end of each floor. The front entrance is located near the southern corner, with a renewed panelled door set under a flat hood supported by brackets. A single-storey, weatherboarded rear extension is also present.
Local climate
4-6, Walnut Tree Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- 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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