White Cottage, and Buttermilk Hall Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1974. House.

White Cottage, and Buttermilk Hall Farm

WRENN ID
steep-granite-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 January 1974
Type
House
Address
White Cottage, and Buttermilk Hall Farm, 1 2, Baldock Road, Aspenden
OS grid reference
TL 342 294
Coordinates
51.94717, -0.04831
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Cottage and Buttermilk Hall Farm is a house that has been divided into two residences. It features a 16th-century north crosswing and an open-hall range of a T-plan late medieval house. The taller southern part was rebuilt with a hall roof in the mid-19th century, and there is a 20th-century north extension. The building has a timber frame that is plastered and decorated with raised bands of painted slate, topped with old red tile roofs.

The two-storey T-plan house faces east and includes a large 17th-century central chimney located in the upper (north) bay of the hall, with a staircase behind it, likely replacing an earlier staircase. There is also a north-side external chimney made of 18th-century brickwork, which probably replaced an older stack. The southern external gable chimney serves a brick-built, plastered southern wing from the 19th century, which replaced the old service end.

The irregular eastern front features a projecting gabled north wing, a gable to the hall, and a higher southern wing that has a door leading into a cross-passage with a staircase. The conjoined diagonal shafts of the central chimney serve both the hall and the chamber above. Inside, the long cross-wing reveals exposed timber with jowled posts and an edge-halved scarf joint in the wallplate, along with bridled butts.

Local climate

White Cottage, and Buttermilk Hall Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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