21 and 25, Harefield Road is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. Semi-detached houses. 5 related planning applications.
21 and 25, Harefield Road
- WRENN ID
- kindled-wicket-vale
- 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
- Semi-detached houses
- Address
- 21 and 25, Harefield Road, Rickmansworth, Batchworth, WD3 1LZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 060 938
- Coordinates
- 51.63341, -0.46859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
21 and 25 Harefield Road are a pair of semi-detached houses that were originally a single agricultural building. Dating from the late 16th century, they were converted into a house in the late 17th or early 18th century and later divided into two cottages in the early 19th century. The houses have undergone some 20th-century alterations. They are timber-framed, with red brick and stucco on No. 25, and feature a steeply pitched tiled roof. Each house has two bays with a central entrance. No. 21 is two storeys tall, while No. 25 has one storey with an attic. There are later brick and timber gabled porches added to both. No. 21 has a panelled door and 12-pane horizontal sliding sash windows, while No. 25 has 20th-century 12-pane two-light casements. Both houses have gabled tile-hung dormers, a central stack behind the ridge, and external end stacks with offsets. There are lean-to and flat-roofed additions at the rear. Inside, No. 21 features chamfered bridging beams on the ground floor. This building is significant as it exemplifies the adaptation of a structure in a formerly rural area to meet changing agricultural and housing needs over time while retaining much of its original character.
Local climate
21 and 25, Harefield Road 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- 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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