Baker's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Baker's shop, house.
Baker's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winter-brick-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Baker's shop, house
- Address
- Baker's Cottage, 49, High Street, St. Paul's Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 185 210
- Coordinates
- 51.87571, -0.27926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Baker's Cottage is a former baker's shop that has been converted into a private house. It dates from the 17th century, with the upper floor and eastern part added in the 18th century, and has been altered in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame that is now cased in brick, which is painted or plastered to resemble ashlar. It has an old red tile roof and is a two-storey structure with two windows facing north. The central door has been changed to a window, with the entrance now located at the rear. On the west side of the front, there is a small 18th-century canted bay shop window, and an internal chimney is located on the west gable. The two western bays have a heavy timber frame with jowled posts, a cross-beam, and exposed joists in the west bay, indicating its origins as a 1½-storey 17th-century building. The eastern end is marked by mortices on the underside of a beam, which was formerly an end-girt across the eastern room. The windows are recessed sash windows with margin-lights. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Baker's 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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