Numbers 2 and 4, Including Front Railings is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1976. Pair of houses. 2 related planning applications.
Numbers 2 and 4, Including Front Railings
- WRENN ID
- waiting-loggia-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1976
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- Numbers 2 and 4, Including Front Railings, Old North Road, Royston, SG8 5DS
- OS grid reference
- TL 353 415
- Coordinates
- 52.05579, -0.02737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 2 and 4, including front railings, are a pair of houses dating from the mid-19th century, notable for their unusual and carefully considered design. Constructed of yellow brick with a Welsh slate roof and an eaves cornice, the houses have basements and two storeys, with a projecting pair of three-storey bays. The window arrangement is 1:2:1, with casement windows throughout, except for first-floor sash windows in the bays. The window heads are elaborately decorated with stucco: ground-floor windows have pediments on consoles, first-floor windows have open pediments on consoles, and second-floor windows feature rusticated flat arches. A central first-floor window is a two-light casement set within a reveal, itself beneath a wide pediment supported by consoles. The central doorways are round-arched, each with a fanlight, foliated keyblock, and consoles, and with wreath ornamentation to the archivolts. Good cast iron railings are present along the front path and over the area.
Local climate
Numbers 2 and 4, Including Front Railings 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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