Totts Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. A C17 House.
Totts Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-stone-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Totts Cottage, 1, Dassels, Braughing
- OS grid reference
- TL 392 273
- Coordinates
- 51.92758, 0.0241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Totts Cottage is a house, now divided into two homes, dating from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame covered in roughcast on a stucco plinth and has a steep old red tile roof. The building is two storeys high with attics and follows a three-unit central-chimney plan, facing west. It has a large central chimney located a third of the way from the south end and a very large external chimney at the north end. The west front is irregular, with two doors positioned close together near the north end and small casement windows with two and three lights. The doors are made of planks with broad frames and flat hoods supported by shaped brackets. There is a rear lean-to attached to No 1, and a four-light attic casement window is located at the south end, positioned over a dripboard at the eaves level.
Local climate
Totts 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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