Sherardswood School Lockleys is a Grade II* listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. A Georgian School.
Sherardswood School Lockleys
- WRENN ID
- keen-turret-frost
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- School
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Sherardswood School Lockleys, Hertford Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 236 159
- Coordinates
- 51.82841, -0.20643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sherardswood School Lockleys is a country house built in 1717 on the site of an earlier house. It features brown brick with red brick and rubbed brick dressings, topped by a tiled roof with a parapet. The building is three stories high, with the lower two stories showcasing a giant Doric order that includes pilasters on stone bases and a full entablature. The facade has a 2:5:2 arrangement of sash windows set in moulded frames, each with segmental gauged brick arches, aprons, and moulded stone sills, along with original thick glazing bars. The recessed center of the building has a door surrounded by fluted Roman Doric columns and a segmental open pediment that displays a carved and painted armorial bearing. The south elevation features a two-window extension, likely added by Sir R Blomfield after 1911. Inside, there is a large staircase with fielded panels, featuring alternate barley twist and fluted balusters located on the south side of the entrance hall.
Local climate
Sherardswood School Lockleys 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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