Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-copper-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, 48, West Street, Lilley
- OS grid reference
- TL 118 264
- Coordinates
- 51.92506, -0.37503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with brick casing added in the 18th century and a western end part built around 1960. It has a timber frame resting on a brick sill, which is exposed in the north gable of the crosswing. The house features red brick infill and casing, and it has steep old red tile roofs that are hipped at the junction of the wings.
The building is L-shaped and faces south, consisting of a main range that is one and a half storeys high and a low two-storey crosswing with a cellar that projects only to the north. There is an internal chimney at the junction of the wings, and a stack on the ridge to the west indicates the extent of the original house.
The south front includes four gabled dormers at the eaves and four ground floor casement windows that sit under segmental arches. There is also a single large gabled dormer on the north slope of the roof. The east side of the crosswing has two windows on each floor. The framing on the north end is exposed and features jowled posts, a cambered tie-beam, a collar, and a clasped-purlin roof, along with red brick infill.
Local climate
Church Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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