Dial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. House.
Dial Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stranded-oriel-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dial Cottage, Aspenden Road, Westmill
- OS grid reference
- TL 367 270
- Coordinates
- 51.92553, -0.01204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dial Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century or early 18th century, with a west extension added in the 19th century. It was restored in 1915, as noted by a plaque on the front. The building features a timber frame that is roughcast, with the lower floor on the south side weatherboarded and the east gable facing the roadside adorned with panelled pargetting. It has a steep thatched roof. The west extension is made of lower red brick with a roughcast upper floor and a steep red tile roof. The symmetrical south front has two windows on each floor and a central door. The windows are three-light small-paned flush casements, with a dripboard above the ground floor. The entrance features a battened plank door with a small hood supported by brackets. The house has a two-room end chimney plan, with an external gable chimney on the west side that is now enclosed within the extension.
Local climate
Dial Cottage 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
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