The Limes is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Limes
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-tin-raven
- 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
- The Limes, High Road, Essendon, AL9 6HS
- OS grid reference
- TL 274 084
- Coordinates
- 51.76021, -0.15433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Limes is a house with an early 19th-century front, likely built over an earlier timber-framed core. It features a roughcast exterior and a slate roof, standing two storeys tall. The road-facing elevation includes three flush sash windows, with the centre window being narrower than the others. On the ground floor, there are French windows. A yellow stock brick chimney stack is positioned set back from the ridge on the right-hand side.
Local climate
The Limes 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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