Holly Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House.

Holly Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
south-copper-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 May 1987
Type
House
Address
Holly Tree Cottage, High Street, St. Ippolyts, SG4 7QG
OS grid reference
TL 187 270
Coordinates
51.92951, -0.27409
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holly Tree Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with a 18th-century brick front on the north side and alterations made in the early 19th century. The building features a timber frame that is plastered and lined to resemble ashlar. The ground floor is encased in plum brick with lighter red dressings and has slate weathering at the top. To the west, there is a timber-framed outhouse that is dark weatherboarded. The house has steeply pitched slate roofs and is two storeys tall with attics, facing north, and includes a single-storey outhouse at the west end.

The layout consists of a two-cells plan with a rear wall chimney on the eastern part and a projecting chimney on the western gable. The north front has two windows on each floor, arranged one above the other. These are flush box sash windows with moulded surrounds and 10/10 panes. At the left-hand end of the front, there is an older six-panel fielded door set in a heavy frame, featuring light red dressings and a flat gauged arch. The ground floor windows also have similar dressings and arches. A doorway, inserted around 1800 between the windows, has a reeded surround with corner blocks, consoles, and a flat moulded hood.

Local climate

Holly Tree Cottage 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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