Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House. 1 related planning application.

Keepers Cottage

WRENN ID
far-merlon-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1984
Type
House
Address
Keepers Cottage, Wyddial, SG9 0UH
OS grid reference
TL 372 315
Coordinates
51.96512, -0.00297
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keepers Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame set on a black plastered plinth, with plastered panelled pargetting displaying varied patterns. The building has a steep old red tile half-hipped roof. It is two storeys high and has a three-cell internal chimney plan, with the chimney positioned a third of the way from the eastern end and the entrance a third of the way from the western end. There is a single-storey rear wing at the northwest. The front of the cottage has three two-light flush wooden casement windows on each floor. An open porch with a hipped tiled roof is supported by two posts and leads to a plank door framed by a moulded architrave.

Local climate

Keepers 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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