Waterside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. House. 5 related planning applications.

Waterside Cottage

WRENN ID
scattered-banister-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1987
Type
House
Address
Waterside Cottage, Leighton Buzzard Road (A4146), Great Gaddesden, HP1 3BH
OS grid reference
TL 036 105
Coordinates
51.78366, -0.49916
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Waterside Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th or early 18th century. The exterior is roughcast with a steeply pitched roof of old red tiles. The house has a two-story, two-cell layout, facing east, with an end chimney on each side. The north chimney has two flues and is a later addition. The front of the house has two windows on each floor, and a large gabled rustic porch. The windows are mostly 19th-century casements with flush frames and square heads. However, the ground floor south window is original to the 18th century, with a segmental arch, flush framing, rectangular leaded panes, and a wrought iron central casement. A single-story extension to the north has a steep roof of old tiles, partly roughcast and partly dark weatherboarding. The cottage was formerly known as Fishery Cottage.

Local climate

Waterside Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2008
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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  • 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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