Rowneybury Cottage (Opposite Redbricks Lane) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1981. House.

Rowneybury Cottage (Opposite Redbricks Lane)

WRENN ID
carved-span-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 October 1981
Type
House
Address
Rowneybury Cottage (Opposite Redbricks Lane), Harlow Road, Sawbridgeworth
OS grid reference
TL 471 133
Coordinates
51.79907, 0.13269
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rowneybury Cottage, located on Harlow Road opposite Redricks Lane, dates from the late 16th to early 17th century. It is a baffle entry house with three rooms arranged in a line. The structure features a timber frame with a rendered brick base, weatherboarding on the ground floor, and renewed pargetting on the first floor. The steep roof is covered with old red tiles and is half-hipped. A large central chimney has multiple engaged diagonal shafts. The original four-light unglazed window above the door has diagonally set square mullions, while there are modern three-light wood casements. The porch is also modern.

Local climate

Rowneybury Cottage (Opposite Redbricks Lane) 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 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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