Vantorts Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Vantorts Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-chapel-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Vantorts Cottage, 21, Vantorts Road, Sawbridgeworth, CM21 9AH
- OS grid reference
- TL 484 146
- Coordinates
- 51.8111, 0.15178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vantorts Cottage is a 17th or 18th century corner house that stands two storeys tall with attics. The front, northern side, and southern gable at the rear feature basketwork pargetting, which has been renewed. The northern gable at the rear is weatherboarded. The cottage has a steep old red tile roof that is hipped at the northeast corner, with a pronounced bellcast at the lower part and projecting eaves supported by canted boards. The roof has a U-shaped plan with twin gables at the rear, adorned with sinuous 19th-century bargeboards.
The front has three windows, each with recessed wood casements that have two lights with six panes each. There is a plank door set in a wood surround, topped by a 19th-century inclined hood supported by curvilinear brackets. On the northern side, there is one casement window and a half-glazed door on the ground floor. The cottage features an internal gable chimney on the southern part and a smaller chimney to the north of the ridge in the northern part of the house. This picturesque corner building is significant in views of Fair Green.
Local climate
Vantorts Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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