Flintbury Cottage and Flint and Brick Dressed Wall on the Western Boundary is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1985. Cottage.
Flintbury Cottage and Flint and Brick Dressed Wall on the Western Boundary
- WRENN ID
- high-cobble-oak
- 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
- Flintbury Cottage and Flint and Brick Dressed Wall on the Western Boundary, Albury
- OS grid reference
- TL 443 255
- Coordinates
- 51.91021, 0.09763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Flintbury Cottage is a 19th-century cottage constructed from flint with brick dressings around the window and door surrounds, as well as on the wall quoins. The building is two storeys high and features a slate roof. It retains a complete range of original metal casement windows. There are two entrance doors, two gable chimney stacks, and one central brick chimney stack. Additionally, there is a flint and brick boundary wall along the frontage to the Heath.
Local climate
Flintbury Cottage and Flint and Brick Dressed Wall on the Western Boundary 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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