No 1 Elia Cottage and No 2, Elia Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.

No 1 Elia Cottage and No 2, Elia Cottages

WRENN ID
crooked-jamb-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
No 1 Elia Cottage and No 2, Elia Cottages, Nether Street, Widford, SG12 8TH
OS grid reference
TL 425 159
Coordinates
51.82433, 0.06763
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 1 Elia Cottage and No 2 Elia Cottages are two houses that date from the 17th century or early 18th century. They are timber-framed, with sections that are weatherboarded and plastered, and feature a steep thatched roof that is half hipped at the west end. The building is two storeys tall and has three windows, facing south. Originally, it had a three-unit plan with a central chimney located one third from the west end and a small gable chimney at the east end. The house has been extended at the east and divided into two separate homes, although this extension is not of special interest.

The central and left parts of the front display dark weatherboarding on both floors, with a continuous dripboard above the lower openings. This dripboard continues across the right-hand part, which is plastered above but has dark weatherboarding below. There is a plank door with battens located on the extreme right of the centre section, featuring a wider inclined board supported by pierced and shaped brackets. Each part of the house has one window on each floor, with three-light flush casements on the left and centre, and four-light flush casements on the right. The west gable is also weatherboarded. This historic timber-framed thatched house is part of a picturesque group within the Conservation Area.

Local climate

No 1 Elia Cottage and No 2, Elia Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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