Bentley's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Bentley's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-plinth-shade
- 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
- Address
- Bentley's Cottage, Anstey, SG9 0BL
- OS grid reference
- TL 408 333
- Coordinates
- 51.98049, 0.04877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bentley's Cottage is a house dating to around 1700, with western additions constructed in the 1970s. The older eastern section has a timber frame on a black stuccoed plinth. It is clad in white weatherboarding and has a thatched roof with four eyebrow dormers facing the front. A red-tiled gabled rear wing and a lean-to porch, set back on the west side, are also present.
The house is long, extending over sixteen bays and three rooms, and faces south. Originally, the eastern part contained a winding staircase beside what was then the west gable, with an internal chimney and a bread oven. It featured a single large ground floor room, with a narrow service room at the east end. A central entrance and two front windows are above which are dormers. The oven projected west into a barn, now replaced by a two-dormer western extension which includes a door and end window. Flat-faced two-light casement windows are found in the dormers and eastern part, with a three-light window in the western part. An iron door gives access to the oven, and there are axial beams in the eastern portion.
Local climate
Bentley's 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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 — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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