5, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Cottage.

5, Church Street

WRENN ID
watchful-casement-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1983
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
TL 234 084
Coordinates
51.76098, -0.21269
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 5 Church Street is a rustic style cottage dating from the mid-19th century. It features random red brick walls with dressed brick angles and has a plain tile roof topped with a chimney stack that has three diagonal shafts. The building is one storey high with attics. On the left side, there is a gabled projection that includes a door with a four-centre arch and a canted bay window with a stepped plinth and a tiled hood. The cottage has casement windows that are fitted with lozenge-pattern cast iron bars and chamfered surrounds. To the right, there is a single storey continuation. This building is included for its group value.

Local climate

5, Church Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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