Malsters Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. A C17 House.
Malsters Cottages
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-flagstone-yarrow
- 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
- Malsters Cottages, 5-8, Malting Lane, Braughing
- OS grid reference
- TL 394 250
- Coordinates
- 51.90669, 0.02548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Maltsters Cottages is a block of four houses located in Braughing village, dating from the 17th century and renovated in the 19th century. The cottages are constructed with a timber frame and are weatherboarded, topped with steep old red tile roofs. They are two storeys high, sitting above a stucco sill, and face east. The design features a steep central gable and a lean-to tiled bracketed hood above each of the four doors. The arrangement is symmetrical, with each house having a central door flanked by two windows on each floor. The windows are flush 2-light casements, which have been renewed and feature small panes. The cottages also have very large red brick central chimney stacks with diagonal shafts. This picturesque group is situated by the ford on Maltings Lane.
Local climate
Malsters 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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