Hornbeam House and Saul's Wood Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Dwellings. 3 related planning applications.
Hornbeam House and Saul's Wood Cottage
- WRENN ID
- burning-footing-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Dwellings
- Address
- Hornbeam House and Saul's Wood Cottage, Ayot St. Peter, AL6 9BG
- OS grid reference
- TL 218 150
- Coordinates
- 51.82058, -0.23352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HORNBEAM HOUSE AND SAUL'S WOOD COTTAGE are former village school and schoolmistress's house, now converted into two dwellings. They were likely built around 1874, probably by J P Seddon, and are in a style similar to the local church. The buildings are constructed of red brick with bands of vitreous brick, white brick, and stone dressings. They have steep slate roofs with pointed crestings. The two-storey buildings have gabled ends facing the road; the southern gable features an attic cusped roundel and four trefoil-headed lancet windows on the ground floor. The windows are square-paned, some with metal frames. There are gabled porches on both the north and south elevations. The buildings are included on the list for their group value.
Local climate
Hornbeam House and Saul's Wood Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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