Church Gate Cottage and Cottage by the Church is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1982. House.
Church Gate Cottage and Cottage by the Church
- WRENN ID
- ghost-cellar-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Gate Cottage and Cottage by the Church, Church Lane, Weston
- OS grid reference
- TL 266 299
- Coordinates
- 51.95371, -0.15829
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Gate Cottage and Cottage By The Church are two adjacent houses located on Weston Church Lane, dating from the 17th century with 20th-century extensions at each end. The northern house, Church Gate Cottage, features a dark weatherboarded timber frame with a red brick extension and steep slate roofs. It has 1½ storeys, internal gable chimneys, two 2-light casement windows, and two gabled dormers at the eaves with pierced bargeboards. There is a short weatherboarded extension with a matching roof, a gabled dormer, and a 4-light casement window. A single-storey red brick extension is set back at the northern end, and there is a trellis porch in the middle of the older part. The interior includes stop-chamfered axial beams and a gabled brick 19th-century rear wing.
Cottage By The Church has a small 1½-storey older part at the northern end, which continues the line of Church Gate Cottage. It features a 2-light casement dormer at the eaves of its thatched roof, a 4-light flush-casement window, and a canted rear bay window with small panes. The tall 2-storey thatched southern crosswing has a dark weatherboarded front and southern side, with a roughcast gable triangle that projects only to the front. A chimney rises through the northern roofslope, and there are two windows on each floor of the front gable, with an entrance beside the left-hand window and a 4-panel door. The interior of the older part has exposed framing and axial chamfered and stopped beams. A 1959 photograph from the National Monuments Record shows a window and door in the position of the 4-light window, and scalloped bargeboards on the dormers of the northern house. This group of buildings is significant in the setting of the church.
Local climate
Church Gate Cottage and Cottage by the Church 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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