Frogmore Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1984. House.
Frogmore Cottages
- WRENN ID
- ghost-flue-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Frogmore Cottages, 1 and 2, Whitehall Lane, Aston
- OS grid reference
- TL 286 210
- Coordinates
- 51.87335, -0.13279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Frogmore Cottages, located on Frogmore Hill, is a house that has been divided into two residences. It dates from the late 17th century and features a timber frame covered in roughcast, topped with a steep hipped roof made of old red tiles. The building is two stories tall and has a central chimney plan with three cells, facing west. There are single-storey extensions at each end of the structure. A red brick chimney is situated on the rear slope, one third from the southern end. The front of the building has four windows, with two at the ground floor and two glazed gable porches at the outer corners. The upper floor has two-light casement windows, while the ground floor features flush box sash windows with three panes over three panes, and the extensions have six panes over six panes.
Local climate
Frogmore Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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