Pheasant Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1985. A C16 Cottage.

Pheasant Cottage

WRENN ID
turning-rotunda-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 January 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Pheasant Cottage, Furneux Pelham
OS grid reference
TL 433 271
Coordinates
51.92486, 0.0828
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pheasant Cottage is a 16th century cottage that is timber framed, plastered, and weatherboarded, with a thatched roof. It has one storey and attics, consisting of four bays. The cottage features casement windows, a central doorway, and an axial brick chimney stack. It remains unrestored and is a good example of its type.

Local climate

Pheasant Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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