Highwood House is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1950. Mansion. 5 related planning applications.
Highwood House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-cellar-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Chipping Barnet MP: Dan Tomlinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1950
- Type
- Mansion
- Address
- Highwood House, Highwood Hill, Nw7, NW7 4HA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 217 935
- Coordinates
- 51.62792, -0.24175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highwood House is an early 19th-century mansion. It is constructed of stucco with a band at the eaves and between the two storeys. The main facade features a three-window central section (with the first-floor window on the left side blocked), flanked by one-window, full-height projecting square bays. These bays have very flat pediments at their tops, and a one-storey wing to the right, which is top-lit. The ground-floor windows of the bays and wing are set in round-headed recesses, each adorned with the head of a lion. Similar lion heads appear above the first-floor side windows of the central block. A semi-circular porch supported by two Ionic columns is also present.
The house is of group value, partly due to its historical significance; it was the home of Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, Governor of Java, and the founder and first president of the Zoological Society, shortly before his death in 1826.
Local climate
Highwood House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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