Home Park Lock House is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. Lock cottage.
Home Park Lock House
- WRENN ID
- unlit-cellar-martin
- 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
- Lock cottage
- Address
- Home Park Lock House, Station Road, Abbots Langley
- OS grid reference
- TL 077 020
- Coordinates
- 51.70701, -0.44181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Park Lock House is a lock cottage located on the Grand Union Canal at Lock No. 70, dating from the early 19th century. The building is constructed of whitewashed brick and features a hipped slate roof. It stands two storeys high and has two windows flanking a central entrance. The windows are sashes, with the ground floor having 16 panes and the first floor having 8 panes. All windows are recessed and have cambered heads. The house also has dentilled brick eaves and end stacks. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Home Park Lock House 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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