Prospect Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1982. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
Prospect Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-thatch-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1982
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Prospect Cottage, High Street, WD23 3HL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 130 952
- Coordinates
- 51.64487, -0.36732
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prospect Cottage is a house with a shop, dating from the early to mid 18th century, with extensions from the 19th century and alterations in the 20th century. It is constructed of stuccoed brick and has a tiled roof. The building was originally symmetrical with three bays, but one bay was added to the right. It stands two storeys tall with a central entrance featuring a flat hood. On either side of the entrance are 20th-century casement windows with slightly cambered heads. The first floor has a central blind window that displays a 1769 Phoenix firemark, flanked by casement windows. The ground floor of the 19th-century bay to the right has a 20th-century shop front that replaced a carriageway. The building has a plinth and dentilled brick eaves, with stacks at the original gable ends. There is a lean-to kitchen at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Prospect 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- 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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