Little Orchard and Haldons Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Little Orchard and Haldons Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-cupola-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Little Orchard and Haldons Cottage, Old School Green, Benington, SG2 7LU
- OS grid reference
- TL 301 241
- Coordinates
- 51.90025, -0.10949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Orchard and Haldons Cottage are a pair of houses, originally a single house dating back to the 17th century. A western bay was added in the early 19th century, and a southwest rear wing and an east crosswing were constructed around 1980. The house is timber-framed, with the western bay facing the road built of roughcast brickwork. The eastern half of the house (Little Orchard) is white weatherboarded, while the western half (Haldens Cottage) is roughcast. The roof is covered with red tiles at a steep angle.
The original house has a three-cell plan with a central chimney, facing north. A bay was added to the west, a two-story gabled crosswing to the east, and a single-and-a-half-story rear wing to the west end. The house was divided through the central chimney. The eastern portion has an open gabled porch with a two-light flush casement window and a shallow oriel window above the door. The western portion has a symmetrical three-window front with a lean-to enclosed porch. It features two-light casement windows, which are replacements.
Local climate
Little Orchard and Haldons 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 — 6 transactions since 1999
- 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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