Brick Wall Cottage, and Number 2/3 is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1966. House. 16 related planning applications.
Brick Wall Cottage, and Number 2/3
- WRENN ID
- rough-pinnacle-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brick Wall Cottage, and Number 2/3, Frithsden Gardens, Nettleden with Potten End, HP1 3DE
- OS grid reference
- TL 006 102
- Coordinates
- 51.78218, -0.54271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, originally a 16th-century open-hall house, now divided into three separate dwellings. An upper floor and chimney were inserted into the hall, with the date '1632' inscribed on a gabled dormer window. A west crosswing was added around 1660, followed by a north wing in the late 17th century, and a rear wall chimney in the late 18th century, likely when the house was divided into three. A late 20th-century extension has been added to the west end.
The building is timber-framed, with the framing infilled with red brick (painted at number 1), and has steep roofs covered with old red tiles. The south-facing western range (numbers 2 and 3) was originally a two-bay hall with an open hearth, a storeyed bay to the west, a staircase in the northwest corner, and a cross passage at the east end. A large 17th-century chimney, with three tall diagonal shafts rising above the roofline, backs onto the cross passage. There are a large and a smaller gabled dormer window at the eaves, both with leaded casements. The ground floor has irregularly placed casements.
The west crosswing (number 1), built in the 17th century, created a new heated parlour, a chamber, and attic space above. It has one window on each floor of the south gable and one to the attic. There’s a 20th-century gabled porch, leaded windows, and a gabled dormer on the west side. Inside number 1, a wide ground-floor fireplace has a three-centred moulded head, and the room contains an ovolo moulded beam with hollow and nicked stops, and a cavetto and ovolo moulded bracket at the east end. The chamber above has a four-centred moulded fireplace and an ovolo moulded beam. The roof is a clasped-purlin roof with cranked wind braces; the hall range has long curved braces and edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts in the rear wallplate.
Local climate
Brick Wall Cottage, and Number 2/3 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 16 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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