Waterboard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Waterboard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-minaret-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Waterboard Cottage, 89, Hoddesdon Road, Stanstead St. Margarets, SG12 8EG
- OS grid reference
- TL 379 111
- Coordinates
- 51.78158, -0.00163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Waterboard Cottage is a house built in 1882 for the New River Company as an engineer's residence connected to the Rye Common Pumping Station. The house is constructed of yellow brick with buff gauged arches and stone brackets to the eaves, and has a hipped red tile roof. It is a two-story building facing east, with a symmetrical three-window front. The upper floor has recessed sash windows, with two panes to each window, flanking a central blind recess. A heavy projecting moulded cornice runs along the floor level. A projecting, round-arched doorway with a radial fanlight is centrally positioned. Wide, segmental arched recesses on each side contain two narrow, round-headed windows. A substantial eaves overhang is supported by moulded, stepped brackets, paired at the corners. A narrower rear wing matches the style of the main building, and projecting gable chimneys are present. The house contributes to a group setting with the Pumping Station.
Local climate
Waterboard 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 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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