5, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. House.
5, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- grey-ember-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 234 085
- Coordinates
- 51.762, -0.21268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Fore Street is a late 18th-century house featuring painted brick upper floors and painted banded stucco on the ground floor. The building has a slate roof and stands three storeys tall with one window. There is a shallow entablature course above the ground floor. The door is located on the left side and is flanked by plain side pilasters, topped with a thin hood supported by shaped brackets. The right-hand window has a bracketed sill and a simple surround. A band runs above the first floor, which features a replacement sash window. Additionally, there is a wrought iron projecting sign holder.
Local climate
5, Fore 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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