Footstep Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Footstep Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-tallow-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Footstep Cottage, 39, Basbow Lane, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2NA
- OS grid reference
- TL 486 214
- Coordinates
- 51.87215, 0.15722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Footstep Cottage is an 18th-century timber-framed house with plaster cladding, situated on the west side of Basbow Lane. It has an old red tile roof. The two-storey, three-windowed east front features a door with a moulded architrave. Two 19th-century casement windows are present on the north side, while the other windows are modern replacements. The north end of the property (No. 41) was likely an addition to the original house. Inside No. 39, there is an early 18th-century fireplace with bolection moulding in the front room.
Local climate
Footstep Cottage 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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