Thorley Wash Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. House.
Thorley Wash Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grey-bracket-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thorley Wash Cottage, London Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 488 186
- Coordinates
- 51.84696, 0.15895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorley Wash Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with a later addition for the parlour. The cottage has one and a half storeys and features a front with four windows and a central door. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, sitting on a high rendered plinth. The steep gabled roof is adorned with three gabled dormers and is covered with modern red tiles. The parlour addition, which is also one and a half storeys, is plastered and has one window with a hipped dormer, matching the house's gabled roof. This addition has old red tiles and an internal gable stack. At the rear of the house, there is a large external lateral stack made of red brick. The cottage has had its casement windows renewed and features a small lean-to porch with brackets and tiled roofing. It occupies an important position at the entrance to the village and is noted on an estate map from 1672/3 in the Hampshire Record Office.
Local climate
Thorley Wash Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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