The Backhouse Room is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1980. A C17 Meeting room. 1 related planning application.
The Backhouse Room
- WRENN ID
- sheer-pedestal-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1980
- Type
- Meeting room
- Address
- The Backhouse Room, Handside Lane, AL8 6SZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 230 124
- Coordinates
- 51.79673, -0.21704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Backhouse Room is a 17th century timber-framed building with one aisle, originally serving as the carthouse of Upper Handside farm. It was converted into a meeting room by Paul Mauger as a memorial to the climber Edward Backhouse, officially opened on 17th March 1923. The building features a modern brick plinth and weatherboarded infill, along with a hipped tile roof. There is some flint infill on the side, two dormer windows at the rear, and remnants of an external brick chimney. Inside, the roof and support timbers are exposed.
Local climate
The Backhouse Room 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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