White Hart Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House. 4 related planning applications.
White Hart Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waning-basalt-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Hart Cottage, Chesham Road, Bovingdon, HP3 0NP
- OS grid reference
- TL 005 032
- Coordinates
- 51.71901, -0.54514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Hart Cottage is a building that began as two houses in the early 18th century, likely incorporating an older timber frame, as indicated by the date 'AD 1717' carved into the brick next to the northern door. It has a lower west extension and underwent alterations in the late 20th century. The structure is made of red brick in English bond, with some black headers and Flemish bond on the eastern gable, and features a flint-walled western extension. The steep roof is covered with old red tiles and has a catslide at the rear.
The cottage is located at a crossroads and faces south, presenting a pair of adjoining one-and-a-half storey houses. Each half has a gabled dormer window at the eaves, along with a wide and a narrow small-paned casement window beneath a segmental arch. The narrow windows in the middle have replaced the former front doors. There is a large external chimney on the eastern gable with offsets and an oven beneath the tiled roof, while a similar chimney on the western gable was removed in the 20th century. The roof structure consists of two bays and includes a crossbeam that indicates a former partition between the two houses.
The 1838 Tithe Map shows the property as two houses with small gable outshuts. Inside, the cottage features exposed beams and an open fireplace with a bake oven, which is missing only its wooden door. Additionally, there are two gabled dormers on the rear roof slope.
Local climate
White Hart 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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