Digswell Place is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1980. House. 8 related planning applications.
Digswell Place
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Digswell Place, Rectory Road, AL8 7SU
- OS grid reference
- TL 230 143
- Coordinates
- 51.81383, -0.21655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Digswell Place is an early 19th-century house, originally the vicarage, with later 19th and early 20th-century additions. The main block is built of pink brick with a slate roof that overhangs at the eaves. The front facade features a brick end pilaster on the right, and three windows, which are hung sashes with glazing bars and blind cases. Below these are three French windows, also hung sashes with glazing bars and blind cases. A section to the right is slightly set back and has one window above a double French window contained within a segmental-headed reveal. The rear of the main block has three-light hung sash windows with glazing bars. The later 19th and early 20th-century additions to the house are not considered to be of particular architectural interest. The building has group value.
Local climate
Digswell Place 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 — 27 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- 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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