Church 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.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-postern-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, 3, Church Lane, Kings Langley, WD4 8JP
- OS grid reference
- TL 072 025
- Coordinates
- 51.7113, -0.44849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with an 18th-century brick casing on the right side of the ground floor. The building features a Gothic-style porch and a west range that were added in the early to mid-19th century. It has a timber frame, with roughcast at the front and weatherboarding on the gable ends, sitting above a ground floor that is cased in red brick. The roof is steep and covered with old red tiles. The single-storey west range is made of painted brick.
The central porch is made of plum brick and has a corbelled plastered upper storey. The house is rectangular, with two storeys, a cellar, and attics, designed in a two-cell layout with an internal chimney and a lobby entrance. It faces south and has a long single-storey west wing that projects at the front.
The front elevation features two gabled dormers on the roof slope, two 2-light casement windows on the first floor, and a similar window to the left of the porch on the ground floor. To the right of the porch, there are two sash windows with 6/6 panes. All windows have small panes, and the top lights are pointed with sunk spandrels. The porch has a battened door set in a chamfered Tudor arched opening, flanked by small pointed windows. The gables are adorned with cusped bargeboards, and there is a large central chimney made of red brick.
Local climate
Church Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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