Kemps Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Kemps Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-hall-lake
- 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
- Kemps Cottage, Hormead, SG9 0DZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 390 295
- Coordinates
- 51.94748, 0.02111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kemps Cottage is a house dating from around 1640. It features a timber frame set on a brick sill, with roughcast walls and a steep thatched roof. The building is 1½ storeys high and has a three-cell layout with an internal chimney and a lobby-entry plan, facing east. The east front includes three windows and a gabled dormer at the eaves, with two- and three-light casements. There is a battened door located opposite the chimney and a third door from the south, with thatch extending down over the porch. The internal chimney on the north gable is a later addition.
Local climate
Kemps 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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