1 and 2, Lower Dunsley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Estate houses. 2 related planning applications.
1 and 2, Lower Dunsley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-thatch-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Estate houses
- Address
- 1 and 2, Lower Dunsley Cottage, London Road, Tring, HP23 5ND
- OS grid reference
- SP 926 115
- Coordinates
- 51.79467, -0.65726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a block of two estate houses built around the 1880s for the Rothschild Estate, likely designed by William Huckvale. The construction is primarily plum brick, with the first floor featuring decorative tile-hanging and half-timbered gable tops. The roof is steeply pitched, covered in machine-made red tiles, and punctuated by tall brick circular chimneys with spurred caps and moulded bases, featuring raised patterns on the shafts. The building presents a picturesque, irregular facade to the west and features an armorial plaque above a ground-floor window. The ground floor windows are flush casements with small panes and segmental arches. The north front includes a gabled jetty to the left of a gabled open timber porch, which has seats against low brick side walls.
Local climate
1 and 2, Lower Dunsley Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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