Bennetts is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Bennetts
- WRENN ID
- watchful-rubble-willow
- 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
- Bennetts, Common Lane, Ashwell, SG7 5JF
- OS grid reference
- TL 260 409
- Coordinates
- 52.05298, -0.16317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bennetts is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with a rear extension added by Sir Albert Richardson in the 1930s. The building features a timber frame with plastered walls divided into pargetted panels and has a steeply pitched pantile roof. It stands two storeys high and consists of three bays, with the right half being blank and likely having been a barn in the past. There is a 17th or 18th century red brick stack towards the right and a brick plinth. On the left side, there are two 19th century flush sash windows, and an early insurance marker is located in the centre. The ground floor has a modern door flanked by casement windows, all under a bracketed hood. The rear extension is made of painted brick, featuring coved plaster eaves and a plain tile roof with leaded casements. The front gable end has a Chinese-style door hood. Inside the main part of the house, there is an inglenook and beams with stop-chamfers.
Local climate
Bennetts sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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