The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-moat-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Damask Green Road, Weston
- OS grid reference
- TL 258 297
- Coordinates
- 51.95238, -0.17037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century, with a red brick front added in 1839. The northern bay has been demolished, and the original thatched roof was replaced with tiles in 1930. The building features a timber frame on a plastered sill and is roughcast, with red brick and some blue bricks on the front. It has a steep red tile roof and a slated rear lean-to extension.
This two-storey house is set back slightly from the roadside and faces west. The front has a symmetrical arrangement, with two windows on each floor and a plank door in the middle. The windows are two-light flush casement types. The door leads directly into a larger ground floor room that has an axial beam and a large open fireplace located in the south gable chimney, which is offset to the rear. A winding stair rises in the southwest corner of the house by the fireplace. To the left of the entrance is a door leading into an unheated parlour. The Cottage has been in the same family since it was purchased from the manor in 1839.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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