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

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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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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  • 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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