Graves Wood Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. House.
Graves Wood Cottages
- WRENN ID
- quiet-gargoyle-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Graves Wood Cottages, Cherry Green, Westmill
- OS grid reference
- TL 352 261
- Coordinates
- 51.9171, -0.03547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Graves Wood Cottages are two houses dating from the 17th century or early 18th century. They feature a timber frame that is plastered, topped with a steep old red tile roof that was formerly thatched. The cottages share a central red brick chimney and are one and a half storeys high, facing south. Each house has two gabled dormers and two windows below, along with a central door. The ground floor includes two-light casement windows that are set flush and have small hoods above them. The doors are made of planks and have a lozenge-shaped opening, also with small hoods supported by brackets. The cottages were previously known as Thatch Cottages before a fire in the late 20th century.
Local climate
Graves Wood 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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