Old Plough House is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. House. 5 related planning applications.
Old Plough House
- WRENN ID
- dark-corner-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Plough House, Plough Lane, Sarratt, WD3 4NN
- OS grid reference
- TL 039 005
- Coordinates
- 51.69394, -0.49698
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Plough House is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, built in two phases and extended in the mid to late 19th century. The first floor features a timber frame with whitewashed brick nogging, while the ground floor is made of whitewashed brick with a brick extension. The house has a tiled roof and consists of two bays that were built separately, with the right bay set back. It is two storeys high, with the entrance located in the right bay, which has a later tiled hood over a timber and brick porch. The ground floor has three-light timber glazing bar casements, and the first floor has two-light casements with exposed posts, studs, and braces. The left bay is similar in style. The right gable end features an external stack with offsets, along with an exposed cambered tie beam and struts. The left bay's right gable end shows exposed framing, while the left gable end has an external stack incorporated into a ground floor lean-to outshut. There is a continuous rear outshut at the back of the left bay, and attached to the rear is a mid to late 19th-century range with a parallel ridge, gable end sashes, an entrance to the right, and a ridge stack. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Old Plough House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 54% 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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