Numbers 2 and 4,Comprising the Chaplains House and Flats Numbers 1,2,3,4 (The Gate House) and 5, and Including East Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1951. Town house.

Numbers 2 and 4,Comprising the Chaplains House and Flats Numbers 1,2,3,4 (The Gate House) and 5, and Including East Wall

WRENN ID
pitched-mullion-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 April 1951
Type
Town house
Address
Numbers 2 and 4,Comprising the Chaplains House and Flats Numbers 1,2,3,4 (The Gate House) and 5, and Including East Wall, Fore Street
OS grid reference
TL 235 085
Coordinates
51.76177, -0.21142
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 2 and 4, which comprise The Chaplains House and flats 1, 2, 3, 4 (The Gate House) and 5, are located in Old Hatfield. This building was formerly known as The Salisbury Arms Hotel and dates back to the mid-18th century, with late 18th century or early 19th century additions on the left and right shallow end projections. The central section features chequered red brick, while the ends are made of plain brick.

The facade includes four flush sash windows in the central section and eight in total, all framed with architraves. The central part of the building is two storeys high, topped with a low parapet and three box dormers. There is a central door that has a semicircular radiating fanlight, surrounded by a Roman Doric pilaster and a dentil cornice. A stucco floor band and cornice band run across the building, with the cornice continuing onto the end bays, which feature attic windows set in tall parapets and segmental-headed relieving arches at the ground floor.

Additionally, there is a 20th-century two-storey extension on the western end, which includes an early 19th-century crenellated wall with a gauged brick coach entrance.

Local climate

Numbers 2 and 4,Comprising the Chaplains House and Flats Numbers 1,2,3,4 (The Gate House) and 5, and Including East Wall 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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