19-21, Royal Oak Lane is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
19-21, Royal Oak Lane
- WRENN ID
- scarred-chimney-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- 19-21, Royal Oak Lane, Pirton
- OS grid reference
- TL 149 318
- Coordinates
- 51.97331, -0.32805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
19-21 Royal Oak Lane is a house that has been divided into two separate homes. It dates from the 17th century or earlier, with a northern extension added in the 18th century and a northwest rear wing from the 19th century. The building features a timber frame that is roughcast lined to resemble ashlar, with plastered brick on the lower part of the northern extension. The northwest wing is dark weatherboarded above a roughcast ground floor. The roofs are steep and covered with old red tiles, featuring a half-hip at the northern end.
The structure is L-shaped and has two stories, facing west. The southern crosswing projects slightly at the front, while there is a two-story extension to the north and northwest. A large internal chimney from the 17th century is located at the junction with the crosswing, rising on the front slope and featuring a recessed panel at the base with ovolo moulded capping, which was heightened in the 19th century.
The southern wing, known as No. 19, has a two-light casement window on each floor and a door on the left-hand side. This door is a four-panel flush beaded type with a dripboard above, leading to a two-light flush casement window. The first floor of No. 21 features a flush-box sash window with eight panes over an adjacent two-light casement window on the ground floor, positioned to the left of a four-panel flush-beaded door within a trellis porch. There is also a canted bay window on the northern extension, which has a step at the ridge and eaves.
Local climate
19-21, Royal Oak 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 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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