The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1973. A C17 Cottage. 19 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- turning-footing-thunder
- 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
- The Old Cottage, Bank Mill Lane, Berkhamsted, HP4 2NS
- OS grid reference
- TL 002 074
- Coordinates
- 51.75644, -0.54853
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a red brick and timber-framed cottage, likely dating to around 1647. The ground floor is built of red brick, while the first floor is timber-framed with red brick nogging between the framing members. The roof is covered with old tiles. The cottage has two storeys and features two windows with three lights, which are flush-sash lattice casements. Two early brick chimney stacks are present. A gabled closed porch has been added. It was marked as a rustic cottage on an Ordnance Survey map.
Local climate
The Old 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 — 5 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 19 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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