Tudor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. House.

Tudor Cottage

WRENN ID
high-copper-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 June 1986
Type
House
Address
Tudor Cottage, Whempstead, Watton-At-Stone
OS grid reference
TL 319 209
Coordinates
51.87179, -0.08518
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tudor Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century, with some minor additions and alterations. It features a timber frame with pargetted rendering and some weatherboarding, topped by a tiled roof. The building has three bays arranged in an L shape, with a stair wing at the rear and stands two storeys high.

To the right, a gable fronted bay projects forward and has an entrance to the left, which is a 20th-century weatherboarded gabled porch. The ground floor has weatherboarding with a flush frame and a two-light small pane casement window. The first floor is rendered and also features a similar casement. Exposed plates are visible in the steep gable.

To the left, there is a bay with two and three-light casements on the ground floor and a two-light casement on the first floor. A later low gabled outshut has been added to the left end, which was likely jettied originally. The original principal stack is located at the rear of the slightly lower ridge between the left and central bays. The right return has an 18th-century external stack with offsets.

Towards the rear, there is a glazed and weatherboarded entrance lean-to. The ground floor has weatherboarding, while the first floor is rendered with scattered small casements. At the rear, there is a gable to the left with a lean-to outshut extending to a lower gabled stair wing in the centre, which has lower weatherboarding and a two-light casement. A catslide roof covers the lean-to outshut to the right.

Inside, there is an ogee stopped chamfered axial binding beam adorned with low relief Tudor roses and a diamond lozenge, along with a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and joists, and a newel stair.

Local climate

Tudor 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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