Fiddlers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House.
Fiddlers Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fiddlers Cottage, 44, Eastwick Road, Gilston
- OS grid reference
- TL 449 120
- Coordinates
- 51.7879, 0.09949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fiddlers Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with a rear extension added in the 18th or early 19th century. The building is two storeys high and has three windows, constructed from timber framing and roughcast with a black plinth, facing west. It features a steep old red tile hipped roof with a bellcast and a moulded eaves cornice, along with a large central chimney located one third from the north end and a rear lateral chimney serving the south room. The layout follows a three-unit plan, with the entrance now situated in the north room near the corner.
The rear extension is also two storeys, timber-framed and weatherboarded, topped with a lean-to pantiled roof. The front displays three windows on each floor, featuring 18th-century, two-light small paned casements with iron opening lights on the first floor, and larger three-light small paned casements with boarded external shutters on the ground floor. The heavy door frame has a moulded architrave and a dripboard supported by shaped brackets. Inside, the structure reveals thin exposed studs and beams. Fiddlers Cottage was formerly three cottages and is part of a picturesque group at Pye Corner.
Local climate
Fiddlers 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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