Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-pewter-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Garden Cottage, Hilfield Lane, Aldenham, WD25 8DL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 141 974
- Coordinates
- 51.66403, -0.35107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. The structure is timber-framed and incorporates brick casing and rendered sections, with a tiled roof. It has a three-bay lobby entrance. The house is two storeys high and features a central entrance within a 19th-century gabled porch, which has a hood mould over a chamfered pointed arch. Ground floor oriel bay windows are of 20th-century origin. The first floor has two three-light casement windows. A cross-axial ridge stack, rebuilt in the 19th century, is located to the left of the centre. There is a 19th-century external stack at the left end, and an oculus within a bargeboarded gable at the right end. Scattered casements are present at the rear of the building. One-storey rear extensions, dating to the 19th and 20th centuries, are not considered to be of particular significance. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Garden 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 85% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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