The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. Residential. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-transept-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1966
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Cottage, Tewin, SG14 2NE
- OS grid reference
- TL 279 140
- Coordinates
- 51.81006, -0.14511
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a former coachman's house and stables associated with Marden Hill House, now converted into a dwelling. It was built around 1790 for R. Mackay and features red brick construction with a tiled roof. The building has five bays and is one storey with attics, originally housing stables on the left side.
The facade includes central and outer door openings, with the central door now glazed. The outer doors are studded planks topped with small pane rectangular fanlights, which are recessed and have segmental heads. A gabled pentice has been added to the right. To the right of the central door, there is a two-light small pane casement window with a segmental head, and a similar gabled half dormer above it. There are also central and outer blocked round-headed loft openings, and a window has been inserted to the left of the central door, breaking the eaves.
The right gable end is stuccoed, while the left gable end features a ground floor lunette, first floor weatherboarding, and a blocked loft door. The rear of the building has blocked and blind openings, including round-headed windows. A later extension extends from the left end, which includes two doors, four single-light segmental-headed casements, and five first-floor blind panels. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Cottage 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- 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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