Holy Rood House is a Grade II listed building in the Watford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1983. Presbytery. 1 related planning application.

Holy Rood House

WRENN ID
last-storey-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Watford
Constituency
Watford MP: Matt Turmaine (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 January 1983
Type
Presbytery
Address
Holy Rood House, Exchange Road, WD18 0PJ
OS grid reference
TQ 108 963
Coordinates
51.65502, -0.39865
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holy Rood House is a presbytery built around 1890 for Holy Emmanuel Church, designed by J F Bentley. The building features a front made of flint and roughcast, is two stories high, and has a plain tile roof with two truncated brick stacks and a stone band. It has deep eaves and a three-window range. The first floor is roughcast, showcasing two splayed oriel windows that rise to the eaves, along with one triple window that is flush with the wall. The ground floor is flint-faced, with a stone string course above it. The entrance features a moulded Gothic arched doorway with a deeply set door.

To the south, there is a three-light stone mullioned window with a flat moulded head. To the north, there are two small-paned wooden sash windows that are flush with the wall; the inner window is a longer three-light window, while the outer one is a four-light window. The south gable end is faced with flint and stone, while the north gable is tile-hung with swept out eaves. The west side has a projecting wing with paired gables, also tile-hung with swept out eaves, and features two groups of triple windows with small-paned sashes in the rendered wall below.

Local climate

Holy Rood 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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