The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1978. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-pier-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Leverstock Green Road, HP3 8LT
- OS grid reference
- TL 088 064
- Coordinates
- 51.74645, -0.42534
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a small timber-framed cottage dating from the 17th or 18th century. It features red brick nogging and a brick-faced front. The building has a steeply pitched tiled roof with gabled ends and consists of one storey plus an attic, which includes a small gabled dormer. There is a modern brick porch on the left side and modern windows throughout. An external brick stack is located at one end of the cottage.
Local climate
The 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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