The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1977. Residential. 4 related planning applications.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
late-trefoil-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 February 1977
Type
Residential
Address
The Cottage, London Road, HP1 2RJ
OS grid reference
TL 024 063
Coordinates
51.74608, -0.51784
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Cottage is a late 17th century or early 18th century house located on the north side of London Road in Bourne End. It features colour washed plaster and an old tiled roof with an eaves cornice and a plain central stack. The building has two storeys and attics, with the front of the first floor refaced with wooden tile hanging. There are three casement windows and a six-fielded panelled door set within a surround of pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice. The east side gable includes an attic lattice casement window.

Local climate

The 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
  • 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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