Range on Northside of Yard at Northwood Preparatory School is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1979. Shed/classroom. 2 related planning applications.

Range on Northside of Yard at Northwood Preparatory School

WRENN ID
tall-pediment-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Three Rivers
Constituency
South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Type
Shed/classroom
Address
Range on Northside of Yard at Northwood Preparatory School, Sandy Lodge Lane, Batchworth, WD3 1LW
OS grid reference
TQ 082 939
Coordinates
51.63394, -0.43681
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a former stock shed, now used as classrooms for Northwood Preparatory School, located on the north side of the yard. It is likely from the 18th century and was altered around 1980. The structure features a timber frame with a brick base and is weatherboarded with a tiled roof. It has 17 bays and was originally open to the yard. The gable end walls have brick below the weatherboarding, and square windows were inserted around 1980. Inside, there are wide span queen strut roof trusses, clasped purlins, and curved braces to the tie beams. The building was extended around 1980 with a parallel brick range added to the rear.

Local climate

Range on Northside of Yard at Northwood Preparatory School 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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