Blair Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House.
Blair Cottages
- WRENN ID
- haunted-glass-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blair Cottages, 1 and 2 Blair Cottages, Hadham Road, Standon
- OS grid reference
- TL 396 221
- Coordinates
- 51.88059, 0.02705
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blair Cottages, located on Hadham Road in Standon, is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features a tiled roof with a central brick chimney stack. The exterior is adorned with plastered fan pargetting and is weatherboarded above a low brick plinth. The building has two storeys and two windows, which are casement 3-light windows set in flush frames. There is a central flush panelled door within a plain case, topped by a small hood supported on shaped brackets. The return sides of the building are also weatherboarded, with No 1 set back on the right.
Local climate
Blair Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- No related consent applications matched
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