Fairview Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. House. 4 related planning applications.
Fairview Cottage
- WRENN ID
- first-turret-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fairview Cottage, 102, High Street, Walkern, SG2 7PG
- OS grid reference
- TL 288 261
- Coordinates
- 51.91939, -0.12759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fairview Cottage is a house, likely dating to the 17th century or earlier, with a front wing probably added in the early 18th century. The house has a timber frame covered with stucco, with roughcast render, weatherboarded sections, and a rear wall. It has steep roofs covered in old red tiles. The original plan was a 3-cell arrangement with a central chimney, and a later 2-storey wing was added to the northeast, featuring its own external north chimney for a ground-floor fireplace. A later lean-to extension has been added to the rear. The house was likely originally built with a lobby-entry, which was later enclosed within the front wing. A lean-to porch is located in the angle of the wings. The east front features a large square red brick chimney, positioned two-thirds of the way from the north end, and a later small external gable chimney at the south end. It has two windows on each floor of the main house, two windows on the upper floor of the gabled wing, and one window on the ground floor of the wing. The windows are 2-light flush casements with leaded lattice glazing. The interior is said to contain exposed timbering and an open fireplace.
Local climate
Fairview 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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