40 and 42, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1980. A Medieval Inn.
40 and 42, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- ragged-chamber-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1980
- Type
- Inn
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- TL 234 085
- Coordinates
- 51.76243, -0.21323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 40 and 42 on Fore Street in Old Hatfield are a pair of former houses, likely built in the 15th century, originally known as the Rose and Crown Inn. These two-storey, timber-framed buildings are roughcast with plain tile gable-ended roofs, with the right-hand end being slightly higher. They feature jettied upper floors, and the ground floor of the right house is partly weatherboarded.
No 40 has a half-glazed door and a 19th-century shop window on the right, while its first floor has a Yorkshire casement window. No 42 has modern Yorkshire casement windows on the first floor. Inside, the buildings reveal exposed wall framing and a blocked window with diamond mullions in the western party wall. There is a timber window stair next to a later central stack, with an additional later stack located on the rear wall.
Local climate
40 and 42, Fore Street 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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