Black Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Black Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-obsidian-moth
- 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
- Black Cottage, Butlers Hall Lane, Thorley, CM23 4BL
- OS grid reference
- TL 467 194
- Coordinates
- 51.85405, 0.12981
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Black Cottage is a late 17th-century house located on the south side of Butlers Hall Lane, near Butlers Hall. Originally a timber-framed building, it is now externally rendered with 2 iron tie plates and segmental-headed openings on the south front. The house has a steep, gabled roof covered in old red tiles. There are large external brick gable chimneys at each end, with the eastern chimney being larger. Modern wood casement windows have been installed. Pantiled lean-to additions have been made on the north side. A large 19th-century cast iron pump, featuring a fluted cap, spurred spout, and curved wrought iron handle, stands at the east end of the house.
Local climate
Black Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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 — 10 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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