The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1977. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-outpost-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, London Road, HP1 2RJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 026 062
- Coordinates
- 51.74593, -0.51492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a building dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, located on the north side of London Road in Bourne End. It is constructed of red brick and has a whitewashed exterior, topped with an old tiled roof featuring two restored end chimneystacks and two diagonal shafts on the left side. The cottage is two storeys high and has two flush three-light wood casement windows with glazing bars. There are modern additions to the north and west of the building.
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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