Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. House.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ancient-bailey-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Woodhall Lane, Shenley
- OS grid reference
- TL 191 001
- Coordinates
- 51.68729, -0.27793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a former symmetrical pair of dwellings, now combined into one, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and has been whitewashed. The building features a hipped thatched roof and is designed in the cottage orné style. It has one storey and an attic, with two windows at the front that are glazing bar sashes set in deep reveals with cambered heads. The attic includes lunettes with eyebrow thatching. The entrances are flanked and accessed by steps, with plank doors that also have cambered heads. There are central capped brick chimney shafts, with two diagonally set squares on each. The eaves are shallow and segmental arched, extending to the thatch on the return walls. The cottage has been extended to the rear, but the interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Thatched 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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