The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- old-chamber-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Long Lane, Flaunden, HP3 0QB
- OS grid reference
- TL 014 013
- Coordinates
- 51.70168, -0.53268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame, originally infill panels of painted brick, with the ground floor now faced in painted brick with imitation timbering. The roof is steeply pitched and covered in old red tiles. The two-storey, two-bay house has a jettied north-facing front with central entrance and external gabled chimneys featuring offsets. There are two two-light flush casement windows on each floor, and a plank front door. The interior features jowled posts and a clasped-purlin roof without diminished principals. A small cast iron framed window is present in the west gable, illuminating the attic space.
Local climate
The Old Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- 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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