Part of the Eight Bells Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1978. A C18 Public house. 1 related planning application.
Part of the Eight Bells Public House
- WRENN ID
- turning-entrance-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1978
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Part of the Eight Bells Public House, 44 and 46, Fore Street, AL9 5AH
- OS grid reference
- TL 233 085
- Coordinates
- 51.76246, -0.21333
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of late 18th-century houses, the left-hand one now incorporated into the Eight Bells public house. The front of the building is of red brick, with No. 46 having a painted facade. It has a slate roof. The right-hand gable end shows timber framing. The houses are three storeys high and feature three windows. The windows on the first and second floors are sash windows, with a 20th-century casement above No. 46. A three-light sash window is located on the ground floor of No. 46. On the first floor of No. 44, there is a pair of windows with late 19th-century glazing bars. A late 19th-century shop fascia is present on the ground floor of No. 44.
Local climate
Part of the Eight Bells Public House 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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