Bourne Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House.
Bourne Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-step-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bourne Cottage, High Street, Widford
- OS grid reference
- TL 420 160
- Coordinates
- 51.82472, 0.05961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bourne Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with Gothic features added in the early 19th century. It has a timber-frame structure that is roughcast above a stuccoed plinth, topped with gabled thatched roofs. The building consists of a one-storey hall range facing east and a one-and-a-half-storey jettied crosswing on the north that extends far to the rear.
There is a six-panelled flush beaded door next to the crosswing, which has a heavy frame and a moulded flat hood supported by large console brackets. The hall range features a three-light flush 19th-century casement window, and the crosswing has similar windows on each floor. The bressumer has delicate dentilled decoration, and there are small chamfered braces at each end. The joist ends are thin and squared. The verge has a scrolled wooden bargeboard with a moulded pendant at the apex.
Bourne Cottage is a picturesque historic thatched house situated in a dramatic position above the road cutting, contributing to the varied group of buildings at this end of the High Street.
Local climate
Bourne 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
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- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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