Beehive Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1984. House.
Beehive Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-lancet-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beehive Cottage, 20, Benington Road, Aston
- OS grid reference
- TL 274 227
- Coordinates
- 51.88879, -0.14947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beehive Cottage is a house located in Aston village, dating from the late 17th century. It features a timber frame set on a black stucco plinth, with plastered walls that have scratched decoration. The main house has a steep old red tile roof, while a lower west extension has a thatched roof. The building is two storeys tall with attics and follows a two-cell, central-chimney, lobby-entry plan, facing south. The west extension has one and a half storeys and contains a single large room with a gallery at the eastern end, beneath the raised part of the roof, and an internal gable chimney from the 19th century. The entrance has been relocated to the beginning of the extension. The main house features two flush casement windows with two and three lights on each floor, along with a window where the former central doorway was located. The west part has two small windows and a gabled dormer, which has '1609' painted above a two-light casement window.
Local climate
Beehive 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
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