221, Icknield Way is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
221, Icknield Way
- WRENN ID
- wild-storey-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 221, Icknield Way, SG6 4TU
- OS grid reference
- TL 217 330
- Coordinates
- 51.98249, -0.22794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a vernacular-style cottage built in 1905 by Bennett and Bidwell. It was awarded second prize in Class I of the 1905 Cheap Cottages Exhibition. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and has a gabled front with three windows. It features a tiled roof with a brick stack, weather-boarded brick walls, framed casement windows, and an entrance with a half-glazed door. The group value is that it contributes to the character of its setting.
Local climate
221, Icknield Way 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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