The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-groin-fog
- 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
- The Cottage, 1 and 2, Levens Green, Great Munden
- OS grid reference
- TL 356 224
- Coordinates
- 51.88439, -0.03069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house, now divided into two houses, dating from the 17th century or earlier, and was divided in the 19th century. It has a timber frame that is roughcast on a stucco plinth, with the northern gable triangle weatherboarded. The building features a steep old red tile roof with a catslide over a rear outshot. At the southern end, there is a single-storey kitchen with a hipped tile roof and an external gable chimney. The house has a tall cruciform central chimney that is off-centre to the north. It is two storeys high with attics and faces east, featuring three windows on each floor and doors located next to the corners. The windows are two-light flush casement windows, with the middle window being smaller, and there are half-glazed panelled doors in glazed porches. A continuous dripboard is present at the first-floor level.
Local climate
The Cottage 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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