Snow White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. A 17th century or early 18th century House.
Snow White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-bracket-reed
- 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
- Period
- 17th century or early 18th century
- Address
- Snow White Cottage, Hormead Dane
- OS grid reference
- TL 402 299
- Coordinates
- 51.95079, 0.03902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Snow White Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or early 18th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a half-hipped thatched roof. The house is 1 ½ stories tall and has a three-cell layout with an internal chimney and a lobby entry, facing north. A red brick chimney is located a third of the way from the east, with a newer flue added on the east side. There are two three-light flush casement windows with small panes and external shutters on either side of a battened door. Additionally, there is a plank door and a smaller window on the west end room, along with two dormers at the eaves. The cottage is mentioned in a document from 1753.
Local climate
Snow White 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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