Home Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House.
Home Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-trefoil-sage
- 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
- Home Cottage, Hormead Dane
- OS grid reference
- TL 402 300
- Coordinates
- 51.95126, 0.03936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with renovations made in the 18th century. It features a timber frame that is roughcast, with a weatherboarded apron on the front, and has a steep old red tile roof. This small house has one and a half storeys and faces west, with the south gable end adjacent to the roadside. The west front includes two gabled dormers at the eaves level, two windows, and a boarded door that is sheltered by a glazed timber gabled porch. The windows are three-light casements, with one on each floor of the south gable, all featuring lattice leaded glazing and iron opening lights. There is an internal gable chimney at the north end and two rear-wall chimneys, with the one at the south end capped off. A low battened door is located at the corner next to the road, and there is an old lead pump in front of the house.
Local climate
Home 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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