1, Batchworth Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1979. House. 1 related planning application.
1, Batchworth Hill
- WRENN ID
- western-stair-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, Batchworth Hill, WD3 1JL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 063 938
- Coordinates
- 51.63344, -0.46444
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 Batchworth Hill is a house that was originally two dwellings, dating from the 16th century or early 17th century, and was refronted in the late 18th century. The structure is timber-framed with a red brick front, rendered gable ends, and an exposed frame with brick nogging at the rear. It has a tiled roof and may have started as a late hall house, later being floored and rebuilt as a symmetrical pair of cottages.
The building is two storeys high and consists of four bays. On the ground floor, there is an entrance to the left featuring a dentil cornice bracketed hood, while a blocked entrance is located to the right. The inner section has three light 20th-century casements with segmental heads above all openings. A rendered plinth is present at the base. The first floor has blind openings flanking three light casements and features dentilled eaves. There is a large stack at the rear right. To the left, there is a one-storey, one-bay 19th-century addition with an end stack, and at the rear, there is a gabled extension.
Inside, the building has a stop-chamfered ground floor binding beam and king post trusses in the roof, supported by straight windbraces.
Local climate
1, Batchworth Hill 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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