White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. House. 7 related planning applications.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-crypt-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Cottage, Little Hadham, SG11 2EH
- OS grid reference
- TL 458 219
- Coordinates
- 51.8769, 0.11802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is an 18th-century house located on the east side of Cradle End in Little Hadham. It is a two-storey, two-window building constructed of plastered clay lump, facing north and topped with a gabled pantiled roof. A mid-20th century, one-and-a-half-story pantiled rear extension has an internal gable chimney. A single-storey stable with a steep corrugated iron pitched roof is situated on the right side. The house and stable are built of clay lump walling, with the interior of the stable walls exposed. The house originally comprised two rooms, with only one heated. An internal red brick gable chimney is located on the east side and features a zigzag flue in the upper room. A single irregular tie beam is centrally positioned within the house, incorporating a staircase rising beneath the west side of it. The clay lumps used in construction are approximately 18 inches long and 6 inches high, and feature a line of regular indentations near the top edge. This represents an unusual survival of a primitive house-building technique.
Local climate
White 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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