Norton Cottage, and Hearts Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. House.
Norton Cottage, and Hearts Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-cupola-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Norton Cottage, and Hearts Cottage, Baldock Road, Cottered
- OS grid reference
- TL 320 293
- Coordinates
- 51.94715, -0.08044
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Norton Cottage and Hearts Cottage are two houses dating from the 19th century or earlier. They feature a timber frame that is plastered, with a dark weatherboarded apron and a steep thatched roof. The building is one and a half storeys tall and has a symmetrical U-shape, facing south. Each half of the building includes a gabled projecting cross-wing, with a central chimney positioned next to the wing and a door located in the angle. There is a lean-to set back at the outer sides. The front of the cottages has windows in the center and four dormer windows. The windows are two-light flush casements with large external boarded shutters. Each cross-wing has two-lift casements on both floors, featuring 'WP' and 'SB' in an oval frame in the plaster above. The cottages are included for their group value.
Local climate
Norton Cottage, and Hearts 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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