Green Hythe is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1978. Cottage.
Green Hythe
- WRENN ID
- steep-granite-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Green Hythe, 2a, Paynes Park, Hitchin, SG5 1EH
- OS grid reference
- TL 183 292
- Coordinates
- 51.94873, -0.2793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Green Hythe is a timber-framed cottage that dates from the 17th century or early 18th century. It was recased in red brick around 1800 and underwent further alterations in the mid-19th century. The cottage has two storeys and features a steep half-hipped roof covered with old tiles, along with brick dentil eaves. The first floor is primarily an attic storey. It has very tall mid-19th century brick chimney stacks that rise from the eaves and gabled tiled cheek dormers from the same period.
The gable end of the cottage has two revealed glazing bar sash windows with flat gauged rubber brick arches on the first floor, and a tripartite glazing bar sash window centered on the ground floor. There is a renewed doorway with a gauged rubber brick flat to the right. The hipped end features a four-light transomed wood casement window on the ground floor. Inside, the cottage retains part of a roof truss with a large tie beam and an end raked brace, as well as a chamfered ceiling beam in the corridor at the foot of the staircase.
Local climate
Green Hythe sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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