Little Chequers is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. House.
Little Chequers
- WRENN ID
- rusted-doorway-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Little Chequers, 7, London Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 230 160
- Coordinates
- 51.82919, -0.21517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Chequers is a house dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of chequered red brick and features a steep old tile roof. The building is two storeys high and has two three-light casement windows with glazing bars. The central door is wide and made of planks, topped with a modern cornice. There is also a painted wood sign from the 19th century. This house is included for its group value.
Local climate
Little Chequers 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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