Gossom's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1973. Cottage.

Gossom's Cottage

WRENN ID
gaunt-gallery-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 May 1973
Type
Cottage
Address
Gossom's Cottage, Gossoms End, Berkhamsted
OS grid reference
SP 983 082
Coordinates
51.76461, -0.57596
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gossom's Cottage is a 17th-century building that was altered in the early 19th century. It features a stucco front and a steeply pitched old tiled roof. The cottage has two storeys and three sash windows with glazing bars, along with three lights on the ground floor. The central door is topped with a cornice supported by consoles. The building is in an L shape with a back wing, and the back elevation includes a chimney stack with an offset and two tall diagonal shafts.

Local climate

Gossom's 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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