Garden Cottage and the Bothy is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. House.

Garden Cottage and the Bothy

WRENN ID
peeling-dormer-summer
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
Garden Cottage and the Bothy, Queen Hoo Lane, Tewin, AL6 0LP
OS grid reference
TL 278 161
Coordinates
51.82944, -0.14632
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Garden Cottage and The Bothy are two houses built as servant's accommodation, along with an attached barn, coach-house, and bothy for Queen Hoo Hall. They date from the early to mid 19th century and are constructed of red brick with some weatherboarding, topped with tiled roofs. The buildings form an L-shaped range, with Garden Cottage featuring one storey and an attic, while the barn, coach-house, and The Bothy are lower.

The entrance elevation of Garden Cottage faces away from the main house and includes two entrances. The main entrance has a four-fielded panelled door in a moulded surround. The windows are scattered small pane flush frame casements with one and two lights, and there are two gabled half dormers. A ridge stack with an oversailing cap is present, along with a left-side entrance into the barn. At the rear, facing the main house, are French doors, a gabled half dormer, and a three-light casement. There is also a gabled midstrey with double doors leading into the weatherboarded barn on the right, and a further door in a lean-to.

The lower coach-house is set back to the left from the entrance front and features two large double doors and a smaller door with a segmental head. The left return has two open bays leading to The Bothy, which includes a door and three two-light leaded pane flush frame casements. The gable end facing the main house has two metal frame two-light casements with segmental heads, while the inner return has two two-light windows. In the coach-house facing the main house, there is a stable door and two small windows. The interior has not been inspected. The buildings are included for their group value.

Local climate

Garden Cottage and the Bothy 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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