Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. House. 6 related planning applications.
Willow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- endless-doorway-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willow Cottage, 12, Waterford Common, Stapleford, SG14 2QD
- OS grid reference
- TL 315 147
- Coordinates
- 51.81549, -0.09347
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century, likely incorporating a 17th or earlier timber frame. It is built of stock brick, with probable timber framing visible in places. The roof is steeply pitched and thatched. The house is a two-cell lobby entry plan, with one storey and an attic. A rendered plinth is present. A central, gabled entrance porch was added in the 20th century, flanked by three-light casement windows with cambered heads. There are two three-light dormers with thatched gabled heads. A central stack is located behind the ridge of the roof. The whitewashed and rendered gable ends feature attic casements, along with exposed plates and purlins. At the rear, there are three leaded casement windows, one of which is tripartite, all set within flush frames and with cambered heads. A flat-roofed addition was built in the 20th century to the right end. A secondary entrance is located within a lean-to on the rear left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Willow 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 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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