Essendon Close is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1952. House.

Essendon Close

WRENN ID
frozen-thatch-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 February 1952
Type
House
Address
Essendon Close, High Road
OS grid reference
TL 273 086
Coordinates
51.76245, -0.15561
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Essendon Close is a house with a late 18th-century front, extended on the south side in 1853, as indicated by a date plaque on the rear wall. The building is plastered and has a hipped slate roof on the south side, with a parapet across the entire front. It stands two storeys tall with attics above a semi-basement and features four sash windows. The original part of the house consists of the right-hand three windows, which include a door with six fielded panels, a semicircular fanlight, and three-quarter pilasters. There is a fluted frieze and a band between the floors, along with a modern cornice band below the parapet that has pediments over the projecting bays.

Local climate

Essendon Close 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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