Nelson Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. House. 11 related planning applications.
Nelson Cottage
- WRENN ID
- young-kitchen-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Nelson Cottage, Rowley Lane, Elstree and Borehamwood, WD6 5PD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 208 978
- Coordinates
- 51.66663, -0.25461
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nelson Cottage is a house dating from about 1600, with alterations and extensions in the 18th century, around 1900, and later. The original structure is timber-framed, with a brick extension. The exterior is colour washed with pebbledash, and has tile and slate roofs. It began as a two-bay house with an external stack and a staircase wing.
The house originally had a gabled staircase wing positioned centrally to the front. An 18th-century extension was added to the left front, featuring a catslide roof and a flat-topped dormer. A more recent brick addition is located on the left bay. A red brick external stack, with offsets and a quadrant oven to the front, is situated on the right end wall. A two-storey extension, with a slate roof, was built around 1900 to the rear right. The original entrance has been blocked, and access is now through the 1900s and 20th-century extensions.
Inside, the house retains exposed timber framing and an original brick fireplace with timber jambs and a lintel. Prior to around 1840-50, the building operated as The Mops and Brooms Alehouse, and from that time until 1932, as The Lord Nelson public house.
Local climate
Nelson 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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