The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. A Post-Medieval House. 3 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-lantern-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- The Cottage, 25, West End, Ashwell, SG7 5PH
- OS grid reference
- TL 264 395
- Coordinates
- 52.0395, -0.15837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the 15th to 16th century, with a rear extension added in the late 17th century and the front range heightened in the 18th century. It features a timber frame with plastered walls and a plain tile roof. The building is two storeys tall, with the upper floor containing two 19th-century cast iron casements, while the ground floor has two margin-light sash windows. Inside, the layout consists of three bays, with the right two bays originally designed as an open hall. A chimney stack was added to the right gable end in the 17th century. The rear left extension is two storeys and lower, constructed of roughcast with a slate roof and two three-light glazing bar casements. It also has a central red brick ridge stack, which includes an attached stair. The front roof features a king post.
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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