Foxglove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. House. 5 related planning applications.
Foxglove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- steep-outpost-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Foxglove Cottage, Levens Green, Great Munden, SG11 1HD
- OS grid reference
- TL 358 223
- Coordinates
- 51.883, -0.02726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foxglove Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with a later outbuilding attached. It features a timber frame that is roughcast and has a steep thatched roof. The cottage is one and a half storeys tall and has a three-unit plan, facing south. To the west, there is a single-storey kitchen that is timber framed and partly weatherboarded, topped with a steep old red tiled roof. This kitchen encloses a large external gable chimney from the main house. The ground floor has three windows and a battened door located a third of the way from the eastern end. There are two gabled thatched dormers at the eaves, and the windows are two-light wooden flush casements with leaded lights. The roof has high-set side purlins, and there is a small tiled lean-to at the rear. An L-shaped range from the 20th century to the west of the kitchen is not of special interest.
Local climate
Foxglove 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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