The Place is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. House.
The Place
- WRENN ID
- lost-paling-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Place, Spring Lane, Cottered
- OS grid reference
- TL 325 286
- Coordinates
- 51.94035, -0.07377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Place is a house from the 18th century, featuring a shallow two-storey rear outshut. It has a timber frame set on a low brick plinth, with roughcast walls and a weatherboarding apron remaining at the rear. The roof is steep and tiled. The house is designed with a two-storey, two-cell layout and a central chimney, with a lobby entry facing south. At the eastern end, there is a single-storey dairy lean-to. The eastern room includes a wider fireplace with an oven, and a staircase is located to the north of the stack. The western room, which serves as a parlour, has a smaller fireplace. The symmetrical front of the house features two windows on each floor and a central door. The windows are two-light Yorkshire sliding flush casements with small panes and drip boards. The central door is a four-panel flush beaded type with a heavy frame and a flat hood supported by shaped brackets. Inside, there are chamfered axial floor beams. The building was formerly known as Flanders Green Farm.
Local climate
The Place 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
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