Japonica Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. A Georgian House. 2 related planning applications.
Japonica Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-quartz-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Japonica Cottage, Hormead, SG9 0DZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 389 296
- Coordinates
- 51.94808, 0.02098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Japonica Cottage is an early 18th-century house located on the west side of Hare Street in Horeham. It is a timber-frame building with a black stucco plinth, plastered walls and a weatherboarded upper part to the south gable. The roof is steeply pitched with old red tiles, and a pantiled lean-to extends from the south end. The house has a two-story, two-cell plan with an internal chimney and a lobby entry facing east. The symmetrical east front has two windows and a central door. The upper floor has two-light flush casement windows. Ground-floor windows include a two-light Yorkshire sliding casement to the right of the door and a small, 12-pane 19th-century shop window to the left, with a fascia and pilasters. The front door is six-panelled, moulded, and set within a moulded surround, topped by a flat moulded hood supported on cut brackets with a panelled soffit and guttae. A weathered rear wing extends to the northwest.
Local climate
Japonica 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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