Stuart Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1975. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Stuart Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waning-bonework-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Stuart Cottage, Ducketts Lane, Much Hadham, SG10 6JL
- OS grid reference
- TL 446 184
- Coordinates
- 51.84623, 0.09834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stuart Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, featuring an exposed timber frame and plaster construction with thatched roofing. The south gable is weatherboarded, and the roof is half-hipped. The building stands two storeys high and consists of four bays with vertical studding and thin cross braces on the south end. There are modern casements and a modern door located in their original position beneath the chimneystack towards the south. Inside, the cottage has chamfered and stopped ceiling beams.
Local climate
Stuart 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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