The Brocket Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. Public house.
The Brocket Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-pilaster-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Brocket Arms Public House, Bride Hall Lane, Ayot St. Lawrence
- OS grid reference
- TL 195 168
- Coordinates
- 51.83747, -0.26592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Brocket Arms Public House is a building that likely dates back to the early 16th century. It features a timber frame construction with painted brick and some exposed framing with nogging. The roof is covered with old tiles. The structure is a long, gable-ended, two-storey range that includes an external chimney stack and modern casement windows, with a total of five windows. Inside, there is a large inglenook fireplace from the 17th century. It is said that the first floor has a king post roof. Additionally, there is a modern l-bay extension on the south side.
Local climate
The Brocket Arms 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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