Old Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. House. 1 related planning application.

Old Church Cottage

WRENN ID
plain-jade-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1986
Type
House
Address
Old Church Cottage, Chapel Lane, Tring Rural, HP23 4QT
OS grid reference
SP 894 156
Coordinates
51.83221, -0.70328
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Church Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with an early 19th-century extension to the east. The building features a timber frame with painted brick-on-edge infill, while the western end has a painted brick ground floor and a tile-hung gable. It has a steep thatched roof with a scalloped ridge. The eastern extension is constructed of painted brick with white weatherboarding on the first floor and has a slate pitched roof. There is a lean-to painted brick garage at the eastern end, topped with a lean-to tiled roof.

The cottage is two stories high and has three bays, with a crosswing that likely extended further to the north. The western end has an underbuilt jetty supported by a jowled post, which is exposed on the southern wall. The taller two-story eastern extension faces south. The crosswing features an internal chimney that emerges from the northern roofslope and has two windows on each floor. The windows are flush casement style with small panes, including four-light and five-light configurations on the ground floor. There is an eyebrow dormer at the eaves. The eastern extension has one window on each floor, along with a six-panel door on the left, which is topped by a flat moulded hood supported by shaped brackets. The ground floor features recessed two-light Yorkshire sliding casements with segmental arches and small panes. An internal gable chimney is located on the eastern side, and there are low extensions to the north.

Local climate

Old Church Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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