Alma Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House.
Alma Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-lead-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Alma Cottage, Meesden
- OS grid reference
- TL 422 330
- Coordinates
- 51.9776, 0.06979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alma Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or early 18th century. It features a timber frame set on a dark stuccoed sill, with white weatherboarding and a steep, half-hipped thatched roof. The weatherboarded lean-to on the west side has red pantiles, as does the smaller lean-to at the east end. The house has one and a half storeys and follows a three-cell internal-chimney, lobby entry plan, facing north with the chimney located a third of the way from the west. There is an external gable chimney at the east end. The north front has four windows and no dormers, featuring two- and three-light small-paned casement windows. A battened door is positioned by the chimney, and there is a dormer on the rear of the roof.
Local climate
Alma Cottage 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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