Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. A C17 House.

Walnut Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
pale-parapet-azure
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
Walnut Tree Cottage, Munden Road, Little Munden
OS grid reference
TL 333 214
Coordinates
51.87527, -0.06457
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Cottage is a 17th-century house located on Munden Road in Little Munden. It features a timber frame that is dark weatherboarded, with roughcast gables and a steep old red tile roof. At the rear, there is a tiled lean-to. The house has a three-unit central-chimney plan and faces west. It is two storeys tall and has a large red brick central chimney positioned a third of the way from the north end, along with a later small external red brick chimney for the ground floor fireplace at the south end. The cottage has three windows and two half-glazed doors, both with hoods. The windows are small-paned flush casement types, and the roof has high-set purlins.

Local climate

Walnut Tree 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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