Woodside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Woodside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-quoin-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Woodside Cottage, New Road, Northchurch, HP4 1LP
- OS grid reference
- SP 978 094
- Coordinates
- 51.77523, -0.58286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodside Cottage is a house that dates from the 18th century or earlier, with an early 19th-century north wing. It is constructed of red brick, likely encasing a timber frame, with red brick extensions and steep old red tile roofs. The building is 1½ storeys high and has a two-cell, end chimney plan, facing south. It features a single-storey hipped west wing and a low two-storey early 19th-century rear wing. There is also a later single-storey hipped east wing with a lean-to at the angle with the rear wing. The internal chimney is located at the west, while the external chimney is at the east, with a rear gable chimney on the north wing.
The front of the house has two windows with a door between them. Two upper windows rise through the eaves, featuring swept roofs that extend to the main roof. There are two stone steps leading to a plank door. The left-hand side has three-light casement windows from the 18th century, while the right-hand side has a renewed two-light window below. All windows have leaded lattice glazing. To the left of the door, there is a shallow rectangular bay window. The front façade includes a chamfered plinth and a dentilled eaves course. The north wing has cast iron lattice casements, and the west gable is roughcast over the lower roof.
In front of the house, there is a deep well with a brick curb and wooden winding gear. It is said that the building was once the parish Pest House.
Local climate
Woodside 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 77% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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