Ribford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1983. House.

Ribford Cottage

WRENN ID
grey-grate-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1983
Type
House
Address
Ribford Cottage, Barwick Ford, Standon
OS grid reference
TL 387 201
Coordinates
51.86306, 0.01352
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ribford Cottage is an early 19th-century house located on the east side of Standon Barwick Road in Hanging Wood. It is constructed of red brick, featuring a diaper pattern on the rear west wall facing the road, and has an old red tile roof. The cottage has a two-room layout with a central staircase, an internal gable stack at the south end, and a smaller external chimney at the northwest corner, which was likely added later.

The building is two stories high and has a symmetrical front with two windows facing east. The windows are small, two-light gothic cast iron casements, with the lower ones having segmental arches adorned with blue headers. A central boarded door is accessed by two steps and is sheltered by a tiled lean-to open porch supported by posts. There is a single-storey tiled brick extension on the south side and a 20th-century single-storey tiled boarded extension at the southeast. The cottage features plain bargeboards and a gothic cast iron casement window on each floor of the north gable. Ribford Cottage contributes to the character of the area by creating a dramatic narrowing of the road near Hanging Cover Cottage. It is included for its group value.

Local climate

Ribford 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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