Tolpits House is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. House.
Tolpits House
- WRENN ID
- late-steeple-pine
- 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
- Tolpits House, Tolpits Lane, Batchworth
- OS grid reference
- TQ 083 943
- Coordinates
- 51.63788, -0.43633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tolpits House is a house, now divided into multiple residences, dating from the 18th century. It was raised, extended, and altered in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick and features a shallow hipped slate roof. It has three bays and three storeys, although it was originally two storeys. The front of the house includes a late 19th-century ground floor addition, with a rendered Doric surround and a pediment framing the entrance, along with margin lights. To the left of the entrance is a French window, and to the right is a sash window. The upper storey features sash windows with cambered heads, with the first floor centre window being larger than the smaller second-floor windows. There is a plat band at the second floor level and oversailing brick courses below the boxed eaves.
On the right side of the house, there is a stack and two bays behind it on the right return, which includes a secondary entrance. The left return has a stack and two bays, along with an early 19th-century ground floor verandah that has been glazed. At the rear, there is a second-floor round-headed stair window and blind windows, as well as two-storey extensions featuring a canted bay. Inside, there is an early 19th-century staircase with barley-twist balusters and early 19th-century fireplace surrounds.
Local climate
Tolpits House 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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