Farriers Cottage and Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
Farriers Cottage and Thatch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-facade-crow
- 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
- Farriers Cottage and Thatch Cottage, Baldock Road, Cottered, SG9 9PS
- OS grid reference
- TL 317 293
- Coordinates
- 51.9468, -0.08419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farriers Cottage and Thatch Cottage is a house, originally built in the 17th century or earlier, which was later divided into two houses. It underwent renovations and received a lower east extension and rear outshut in the early 19th century. The building features a timber frame that is roughcast, topped with a steep thatched roof and an old red brick central chimney. There is also an early 19th-century white brick external gable chimney on the west side.
The structure is two storeys high and has a three-cell, central-chimney, lobby-entry plan, facing south, with the central chimney located a third of the way from the east end. The western half, known as Farriers Cottage, has a symmetrical front with two windows and a central battened door that is sheltered by a small hood supported by shaped brackets. It features two Yorkshire two-light sliding flush casements on the first floor and two-light casements on the ground floor.
The eastern half, referred to as Thatch Cottage, has three small flush casement windows with leaded lights on each floor, which have been renewed. It also includes a boarded door with a bullseye light cut into it, located opposite the chimney, and a similar door leading into the eastern extension.
Local climate
Farriers Cottage and Thatch Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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