Wanns Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Wanns Cottage
- WRENN ID
- steep-bracket-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wanns Cottage, High Street, Widford, SG12 8SN
- OS grid reference
- TL 420 159
- Coordinates
- 51.82384, 0.05966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wanns Cottage is a house that dates from the 18th century or earlier, with a brick casing added in the early 19th century. The wing of the house was extended in the 1930s. The rear wing is timber-framed and plastered. The front block is faced in grey brick and colourwashed, and it has steep roofs that are now slated. The house has a double-pile plan and is two storeys tall under a single pitched roof, facing west. It features a long narrow plastered rear wing, with the lower part colonnaded next to the house. There are projecting gable chimneys on the front range. The front has two upper windows, with a central window also on the ground floor. To the left, there is a lean-to tiled open timber porch leading to a four-panel half-glazed door. The front also has two-light timber mullioned windows, while the rear wing has three-light flush casements. This is an interesting historic village house and is part of the group at the top of the High Street in the Conservation Area.
Local climate
Wanns Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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