Hall House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. A Post-Medieval Residential.

Hall House Cottage

WRENN ID
blind-rotunda-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1984
Type
Residential
Period
Post-Medieval
Address
Hall House Cottage, Hormead Dane
OS grid reference
TL 404 301
Coordinates
51.95174, 0.04181
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hall House Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame set on a red brick base, with the front stuccoed and the sides roughcast, complemented by a dark weatherboard apron and an east gable. The west gable is plastered and designed to resemble ashlar stone. The building has steep old red tile roofs, including a half-hipped rear wing.

This 1½-storey house has a three-cell layout with an internal chimney and a lobby entry, facing north. It includes a single-flue red brick chimney located a third of the way from the east end, aligned with the front door. At the rear, there is a plastered and tiled lean-to with a weatherboard apron, as well as a tiled and plastered extension at the southwest.

The front of the house has three windows, along with a gabled dormer at the eaves. The windows are two-light flush Yorkshire sliding casements. The entrance features a six-panel door, which includes two glazed panels, two moulded panels, and two flush bead panels, all beneath a flat hood supported by shaped brackets.

Local climate

Hall House Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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