Clare Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House.
Clare Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-pedestal-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Clare Cottage, Anstey
- OS grid reference
- TL 402 325
- Coordinates
- 51.97338, 0.03994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clare Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It features a timber frame set on a stuccoed sill, with a roughcast front that has corner battens and a dark weatherboard gable on the west side. The steep roof is covered with old red tiles and has bellcast eaves. The house is two storeys high, with a two-cell internal chimney and a lobby entry plan, facing north. There is a pentice porch that connects to a 20th-century tiled and painted brick garage at the west end. At the rear, there is a single-storey gabled wing that is roughcast and has a pantile roof. Inside, the cottage has axial floor beams, and the stairs rise along the rear wall of the eastern part, with the chimney located at the back of the roof ridge. There are two windows on each floor, featuring two-light, small pane, flush casement windows. The central door is framed and battened, with a small glazed panel.
Local climate
Clare Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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