Steen Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. A C16 House. 8 related planning applications.
Steen Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-portal-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Steen Cottage, Munden Road, Great Munden, SG11 1HP
- OS grid reference
- TL 359 245
- Coordinates
- 51.90259, -0.02501
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Steen Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century or early 17th century. It has a timber frame with roughcast and panelled pargetting on the south end, along with a plastered brick plinth. The roof is steep, covered with old red tiles, featuring a half-hipped design and a steeper catslide continuation over a rear outshot. The house has two storeys and a three-unit plan with a lobby entry and a central chimney, facing east.
There is a red brick central chimney located a third of the way from the south end, along with a later small external gable chimney at the north end, which is the downhill side. The front of the cottage features a plaster eaves cove and three 18th-century flush Yorkshire sliding casement windows on each floor, plus a smaller window above the door. The boarded door is accessed by two steps and is set in a plain doorcase with a lean-to tiled hood supported by brackets. Additionally, there is a small rectangular ground floor oriel window on brackets at the south gable end. The central chimney originally rose in front of the ridge and has since been widened, while the north gable chimney has tumbled brick offsets.
Local climate
Steen 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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