Pound Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House.
Pound Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-jade-bramble
- 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
- Pound Cottage, the Common, Kings Langley
- OS grid reference
- TL 070 029
- Coordinates
- 51.71504, -0.45182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pound Cottage is a house dating from around 1600, with a floor inserted and brick casing added in the 18th century. There is also a brick rear extension built around 1974. The building features a timber frame on a brick sill, with white weatherboarding on the north side and brick casing on the west and south sides, along with a tile-hung gable on the south. The house has steep old red tile roofs and is 1½ storeys tall, facing west. It includes two gabled plastered dormers at the eaves and three 2-light flush casement windows set under segmental arches. The entrance is now located in the extension. Historically, this was the pound keeper's cottage and once served as a 'charity cottage' for the poor of the parish.
Local climate
Pound Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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