Lordship Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1961. House.
Lordship Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-corridor-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lordship Cottage, High Street, Much Hadham
- OS grid reference
- TL 428 198
- Coordinates
- 51.85863, 0.07255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lordship Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame construction, with plastering over a brick base. The gable end faces the road, and it has a steep roof covered with old tiles, along with three gabled dormers. The building is 1.5 storeys high and has a tall 17th-century chimneystack positioned towards the road, which has diagonal shafts set on a square base. On the ground floor, there are three-light, mullioned, leaded casements, and the dormers have twin leaded casements.
Local climate
Lordship 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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