Swallows Nest Westover Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. Houses. 1 related planning application.

Swallows Nest Westover Cottage

WRENN ID
salt-merlon-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1984
Type
Houses
Address
Swallows Nest Westover Cottage, Munden Road, Great Munden, SG11 1HW
OS grid reference
TL 359 244
Coordinates
51.90203, -0.02489
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Swallows Nest and Westover Cottage are two houses dating from the late 17th century, with a garage wing added in the late 20th century. They are constructed with a timber frame and roughcast finish, sitting on a stucco plinth, and feature a steeply pitched old red tile roof. The building is a long block of one and a half storeys, facing west and divided unevenly.

The front has four gabled dormers with casement windows, and the middle two gables display a circular motif of a ship. Westover Cottage, the smaller of the two houses, has an external red brick gable chimney and a central plank door with a simple surround and drip, flanked by two 2-light flush casement windows. To the south is a two-unit house with a central door similar to Westover Cottage but featuring six bullions inset. There is an end chimney at the north and a rear lateral chimney on the southern part, with similar casement windows throughout. The southern end has a plastered and tiled extension that includes inset garage doors and a fourth matching gable.

Local climate

Swallows Nest Westover 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
  • 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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