The Red Cow Inn is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1951. Inn. 1 related planning application.

The Red Cow Inn

WRENN ID
errant-shingle-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 April 1951
Type
Inn
Address
The Red Cow Inn, 4, Market Place, SG5 1DR
OS grid reference
TL 184 290
Coordinates
51.94772, -0.27844
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Red Cow Inn is an 18th-century building located at No. 4 Market Place. It features plaster-faced upper floors and a steeply pitched tiled roof with a cross gable. The inn has two storeys and attics, with a modern shop front. On the first floor, there are two flush sash windows with glazing bars, and one attic window in the gable. The Red Cow Inn is part of a group of listed buildings in Market Place.

Local climate

The Red Cow Inn 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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