Great Nast Hyde,Including Front Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1966. Manor house. 15 related planning applications.
Great Nast Hyde,Including Front Garden Wall
- WRENN ID
- errant-keep-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1966
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Great Nast Hyde,Including Front Garden Wall, Wilkins Green Lane, AL10 9RB
- OS grid reference
- TL 205 077
- Coordinates
- 51.75574, -0.25538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Nast Hyde is a manor house that now serves as a residence for British Aerospace. It dates from the early to mid-17th century and is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and a plain tile roof. An early 20th-century west extension has been added in a similar style. The original part of the building is two storeys high with attics.
The south elevation features five windows and has slightly projecting gable ends that were formerly curvilinear. Above the three-window center, there is a matching attic gable. A two-storey gabled porch bay is adorned with a Doric pilaster cement door surround. The outer bays have early 20th-century canted ground floor window trays, with first-floor windows set in shallow projecting brick surrounds. There are moulded stone cornice bands on the first and second floors, and the windows have 20th-century mullioned and transomed casements.
On the garden elevation, the arrangement of windows is 1:2:1, with projecting, parapeted gabled ends that reflect similar detailing. A 20th-century single-storey central extension is also present. The mid-17th-century central ridge chimney stack features three joined shafts, topped by a central 17th-century wooden bell cupola with four arched sides, a moulded cornice, and a lead roof. The west extension includes two chimney stacks styled to match the 17th-century design.
Inside, the east wing contains a large open well staircase with tall newel posts and flat-sided balusters. An adjacent first-floor room features a moulded stone fireplace surround, and the north first-floor corridor has channelled stone door arches.
Local climate
Great Nast Hyde,Including Front Garden Wall 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 15 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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