Hare Street Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House. 6 related planning applications.

Hare Street Cottage

WRENN ID
haunted-gutter-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1984
Type
House
Address
Hare Street Cottage, Hormead
OS grid reference
TL 390 297
Coordinates
51.94907, 0.02116
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hare Street Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with a brick front added in the 18th century. The house has a timber frame with a red brick sill and is weatherboarded at the ends, while the front and rear are cased in red brick with black vitrified headers. The roof is steeply pitched, covered in old red tiles, and is half-hipped to the north and hipped to the south.

The house is arranged with two storeys and three rooms, originally with only two heated rooms, facing west. A door is located at the south end of the middle section. The west front has three windows positioned above the door and two flanking it. A third window is located near the corner of the ground floor in the north room. A narrow, blocked window on the first floor is aligned with the chimney stack. A projecting brick floor band and segmental relieving arches are visible above the lower windows on both the front and rear elevations. The front door is a four-panel flush beaded door with a leaded glazed opening at the top, covered by a moulded hood on fluted consoles. The door is set within a broad, moulded architrave and accessed by a single step.

Inside, there are axial beams in the middle and south sections, and the north section is axially divided. The property was known as Cockes from 1608 to 1805 and as Redhouse Farm around 1818.

Local climate

Hare Street 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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 — 7 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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