Wayside, and Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. House. 11 related planning applications.

Wayside, and Oak Cottage

WRENN ID
heavy-soffit-plum
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
Wayside, and Oak Cottage, Leighton Buzzard Road (A4146), Great Gaddesden, HP1 3BH
OS grid reference
TL 036 106
Coordinates
51.78472, -0.49943
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

This is a house, now divided into two separate dwellings, Wayside and Oak Cottage. The original core of the building dates back to the 16th century, with later alterations and extensions in the 17th century and the 20th century. The construction is timber frame with painted brick sills and painted brick infill. The ground floor of the western part has been rebuilt in brick. The roof is steeply pitched and covered in old red tiles.

The house is a long, rectangular block, with two storeys in the older eastern part (Wayside) and one-and-a-half storeys in the western part, which features two gabled dormers at the eaves. The eastern part has three upper-floor windows, with the central window extended above the eaves as a swept dormer, and two ground-floor windows. These ground-floor windows have external wooden shutters, and a plank door is situated between them, sheltered by a lean-to timber porch. Casement windows are fitted with wrought iron frames and rectangular leaded lights. A two-storey rear wing has a weatherboarded gable triangle.

The roadside elevation of Oak Cottage shows a straight joint in the middle, indicating the western extension. An old three-light casement window is also visible. Further details on the rear elevation include a framed two-storey wing with square framing and a weatherboarded gable. The older part (Wayside) has a clasped-purlin roof with a collar truss at the eastern gable.

Local climate

Wayside, and Oak 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 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 11 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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