Hillside Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Hillside Cottages
- WRENN ID
- silver-roof-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hillside Cottages, 1 and 2 Hillside Cottages, High Street, Widford, SG12 8SP
- OS grid reference
- TL 420 159
- Coordinates
- 51.82428, 0.05971
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A block of two houses, likely dating from the 17th century and extended forward in the early 19th century as shown on a Tithe Map of 1839. The houses are timber-framed and plastered. They consist of two storeys with a steeply pitched tiled roof to the rear of a wider, flatter pitched slate roof. A large grey brick chimney sits on the ridge. The eaves are trimmed, with an ogee gutter. Each house has one window on each floor. Doors are positioned away from back-to-back fireplaces. The windows are flush box sashes with 6/6 panes. Later, half-glazed doors were fitted. A modern, single-storey plastered extension is present on the north end. The houses represent an older village property extended and divided into two dwellings in the early 19th century and contribute to a picturesque group within the Conservation Area.
Local climate
Hillside Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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