Shepherds Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. Cottage.
Shepherds Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-balcony-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Shepherds Cottage, the Street, Furneux Pelham
- OS grid reference
- TL 430 279
- Coordinates
- 51.93131, 0.07924
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shepherds Cottage is a 17th to 18th century building featuring a timber frame with plastered panels and a thatched roof, which has a half hip at the north end. The cottage stands two storeys tall and includes a single storey tiled lean-to at the northern end. It has modern casement windows and a modern extension to the south with a tiled roof. The building is topped with a central chimney stack and two later chimney stacks. It was previously listed as Thatched Cottage.
Local climate
Shepherds 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
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