Pipers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. A C16 House. 4 related planning applications.
Pipers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-oriel-ivory
- 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
- Pipers Cottage, Nettleden with Potten End, HP1 3DQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 020 105
- Coordinates
- 51.78408, -0.52256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pipers Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with 19th century brick additions at the northeast. The structure features a timber frame that is cased in rendered brickwork, with the frame exposed on the gables. It has steep red tile roofs and is 1½ storeys high, consisting of three structural bays that face south. The house includes three large gabled dormers that rise through the eaves, along with lower brick ranges at the eastern end and rear. There are four windows in total, which are three-light flush casements with lattice leaded glazing. The cottage has large canted bays at both the eastern and western ends.
Internally, posts and rails are partially exposed on the ground floor, along with cross-beams and axial beams. The wall plate is approximately 4 feet above the floor level, supported by three trusses with heavy curved braces to the tie-beams, which have been cut through. Weathered timbers are visible on the former eastern end of the house. Additionally, there is a mid-height rail in the rear (northern) wall, situated about 6 feet from the ground and 4 feet below the wall plate.
Local climate
Pipers 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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