The Rectory 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.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- final-foundation-umber
- 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
- The Rectory, 1, Fore Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 234 085
- Coordinates
- 51.76173, -0.21256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is a former rectory for inferior clergy in Hatfield Parish, dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It features a timber frame and has a lobby entrance plan with two bays. The exterior is roughcast, with the northern gable end stuccoed facing the street, and it has a plain tile roof. The building is two storeys high and includes two eaves dormers, along with a central first-floor window that has 17th and 18th century oak mullions and casements. On the ground floor, there is a 20th-century gabled window bay that replaces the original porch. Additionally, there is an early to mid-19th century porch-bay addition on the northern side. The door has three triangular-headed panels and is supported by thin moulded brackets under the hood.
Local climate
The Rectory 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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