Grays Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1985. A Early C18 Cottage.
Grays Cottages
- WRENN ID
- lost-eave-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Grays Cottages, 3, Brent Pelham
- OS grid reference
- TL 450 304
- Coordinates
- 51.95362, 0.10912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grays Cottages is an early 18th century cottage that features a timber frame, weatherboarding, and rendering on a brick base, topped with a thatched roof. The cottage has a two-storey outshut on the northern side and a lower range of early metal casement windows, while the upper range includes four double-hung sash windows at the rear. It is also notable for its two gable brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Grays Cottages 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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