Rookwood Cottage and Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1972. House.
Rookwood Cottage and Holly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-keystone-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rookwood Cottage and Holly Cottage, Little Hadham
- OS grid reference
- TL 451 211
- Coordinates
- 51.87044, 0.1069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookwood Cottage and Holly Cottage is a house, now divided into two houses, dating from the 17th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, standing two storeys high with a steep half-hipped roof made of old red tiles and a rear outshut under a catslide roof. The building consists of two houses that are each two rooms wide, with a central chimney for each. There are four windows and doors located next to the front corners. The chimneys rise through the front slope of the roof, with one positioned by the ridge and the other further down the slope. It was likely originally constructed as a three-unit house with an old central chimney at the southern end, and a second chimney was added in the cross passage when it was converted into two houses. The property does not appear on the Clintons Estate map from 1588.
Local climate
Rookwood Cottage and Holly Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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