Vine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1985. House.
Vine Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waning-ashlar-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Vine Cottage, Chesham Road, Wigginton
- OS grid reference
- SP 939 102
- Coordinates
- 51.78284, -0.63882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vine Cottage is a house that dates from the late 17th century, with the northern part and the brick front from the early 18th century, while the southern part was added in the 19th century when it served as the village post office. The outer walls are made of brick, with timber-framed partitions, and the 18th-century front features red and blue brick. The southern part is constructed of red brick and is the same height, with a plastered gable. The house has steep old red tile roofs and is a long two-storey structure set back from the road, facing west.
It has four windows across the front, featuring flush three-light small-pane casement windows, and two plank doors with segmental arches and gabled wooden porches. The ground floor windows also have segmental arches, with timber lintels above them. A large external chimney with two flues is located on the northern gable, while there is a later internal chimney in the southern part. Inside, the older section has exposed timbers, and the walls have been raised to two feet above the tie-beams in the partitions. The shallower northern part includes an axial beam with hollow stops.
Local climate
Vine Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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