18 and 20, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
18 and 20, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- hidden-glass-solstice
- 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
- 18 and 20, Fore Street, AL9 5AH
- OS grid reference
- TL 234 085
- Coordinates
- 51.76213, -0.21239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, comprising numbers 18 and 20 Fore Street, dating from the later 18th century. The front is built of chequered red brick over a rendered base, with a stucco band marking the position of the upper windows. The roof is steeply pitched and tiled, with square dormers. The windows are flush-sash, with three on the first floor and two on the ground floor. Number 18 has a plain door with a deep hood supported by shaped brackets. Number 20’s door features six fielded panels within a moulded surround and is flanked by three-quarter engaged Roman Doric columns, a triglyph frieze, and a dentil cornice. Brick dentilled eaves are present. A twin-shaft chimney stack rises from the west gable.
Local climate
18 and 20, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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