Northend Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1977. A C16 House. 5 related planning applications.
Northend Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-timber-thrush
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Northend Cottage, Bedmond Road, HP3 8LJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 084 064
- Coordinates
- 51.74631, -0.43024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Northend Cottage is a building from the 16th or early 17th century. It has a timber frame that has been refaced in whitewashed brick and features an old tiled roof. The cottage is two storeys high and has five modern flush casement windows. There is a closed porch with a pentice roof located to the right of the centre. The back of the building has a semi-circular bow that accommodates the staircase. Inside, the first-floor walls showcase original raised plaster decoration featuring fleur-de-lys and rose designs beneath a crown.
Local climate
Northend 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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