Shipwrights, and Shipwrights Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. House. 10 related planning applications.

Shipwrights, and Shipwrights Cottage

WRENN ID
under-chalk-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1984
Type
House
Address
Shipwrights, and Shipwrights Cottage, Baldock Road, Cottered, SG9 9QN
OS grid reference
TL 319 293
Coordinates
51.94655, -0.08103
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shipwrights and Shipwrights Cottage is a house that has been divided into two homes. It dates from the 16th century or earlier, featuring a gabled crosswing, while the western range was rebuilt around 1700 and the southeast wing was added later. The building has a timber frame that is plastered, with steep thatched roofs. The western gable end is covered in plastered brick, and the southeast wing is made of plastered brick with a hipped roof.

The original two-storey crosswing has been incorporated into a taller two-storey house with a central chimney and a lobby entry facing north, which has a half-hipped western gable. The crosswing and southeast wing were later separated to create another house, Shipwrights, which has a small porch added to the front of the gabled wing.

An external chimney on the eastern side serves the crosswing, which features a three-light flush casement window on each floor of the northern gable. The western range has two windows on each floor, also with three-light flush casement windows. The central door is half-glazed and is located under a gabled porch supported by posts. Inside the crosswing, there is an open fireplace and heavy joists, which may indicate that it was originally jettied at the front.

Local climate

Shipwrights, and Shipwrights 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 10 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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