St George's is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House.
St George's
- WRENN ID
- tilted-portal-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- St George's, 54, High Street, Barkway
- OS grid reference
- TL 384 357
- Coordinates
- 52.00276, 0.01555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St. George's is a house that was once three separate dwellings. It has origins dating back to the 17th century but was largely rebuilt and refronted in the late 18th century, with extensions added in the 19th century. The structure features a timber frame that is rendered, with a red brick front and a tiled roof, while the rear additions have a slate roof. The house is broad with three main cells and likely originally had a through passage plan. The entrance is located between windows on the center and right, with a stack to the left of center and a window at the far left.
The building has two storeys, with a step up to a recessed six-panelled door that has four fielded panels. The doorcase is adorned with reeded pilasters and shaped brackets supporting the hood. There is a plinth at the base. The ground floor features 16-pane sash windows, while the first floor has three-light small-pane casements, all of which are recessed with timber sills and slightly cambered heads. A cross axial ridge stack is present.
The left gable end has cement render over the ground floor brick, while the right gable end is rendered and includes a ground floor lean-to outshut that has a large sash window at the front and a weatherboarded return with an entrance. At the rear, there is a 19th-century continuous lean-to outshut and a two-storey wing to the rear left, which has a ground floor made of brick and flint and first-floor weatherboarding, along with a ridge stack. Inside, there are reset stop-chamfered bearers.
Local climate
St George's sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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