Ash Cottage 300 Metres Weast of Mardocks Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 House.

Ash Cottage 300 Metres Weast of Mardocks Farm

WRENN ID
hollow-loggia-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
OS grid reference
TL 390 144
Coordinates
51.81177, 0.01604
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ash Cottage is a house located 300 metres west of Mardocks Farm, dating from the 17th century or earlier, with a late 17th century parlour wing on the east side. The building features a timber frame that is roughcast, with smooth margins at the corners and openings. It has an old red tile roof and a tarred brick plinth. This long, two-storey structure has a higher block at the east end, with a lobby entrance next to a central chimney that serves both sections of the house. There is a rear outshut extension to the east block.

The north-facing front has four 2-light casement windows and a 19th-century cabled timber porch with a shaped bargeboard. The main block has small upper windows located under the eaves, and there is a large external gable chimney at the west end that serves the ground floor only. The south front is plastered, with the ground floor covered in dark weatherboard. It features a half-glazed door with a flat hood supported by brackets, and to the left of the door is a 2-light casement window with small panes.

Local climate

Ash Cottage 300 Metres Weast of Mardocks Farm 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 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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