Hoskins Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. A C18 House.
Hoskins Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vast-loggia-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hoskins Cottage, 3, Covey's Lane, High Wych
- OS grid reference
- TL 455 155
- Coordinates
- 51.8192, 0.11036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hoskins Cottage is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It has a timber frame that is plastered and features a steep gabled roof, which is now covered with slate. The cottage is small, with two storeys and two windows. A single red brick chimney projects from the north gable, widening to accommodate a single original fireplace on the ground floor, with an added brick area below the window that may have served as an oven. The central door is framed by a wooden gabled porch and features a plank door. The cottage has 19th-century two-light wood casement windows, with the upper floor windows being taller than those on the ground floor. At the back, there is a 19th-century lean-to extension made of slate and plastered brick, which includes a chimney constructed from stock brick.
Local climate
Hoskins Cottage 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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