The Old Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. Cottage.

The Old Oak Cottage

WRENN ID
swift-portal-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
The Old Oak Cottage, Pottersheath Road, Codicote
OS grid reference
TL 238 183
Coordinates
51.84963, -0.20348
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Oak Cottage is a 17th-century cottage featuring an exposed timber frame with whitewashed brick infill and a plain tile roof. It is a single-storey building with two attic dormers located on either side of a central 17th-century ridge chimney stack that has joined square shafts. Below the stack, there is a plank door. The cottage has 19th-century glazing bar casements. To the left, there is a modern gabled rear extension.

Local climate

The Old Oak 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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