Alder Cottace is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Alder Cottace
- WRENN ID
- tired-forge-meadow
- 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
- Address
- Alder Cottace, 16, Lucas Lane, Ashwell, SG7 5LN
- OS grid reference
- TL 271 398
- Coordinates
- 52.04221, -0.14745
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alder Cottage is a mid-19th century house with a timber frame and plastered walls, topped by a low-pitched slate roof. It stands two storeys tall and features three 6/6-pane sash windows on each floor. On the left side of the front, there is a six-panel door set in a panelled reveal. The door and windows are adorned with distinctive Egyptian style architraves, each designed as a thin panel featuring patterns such as stars, crosses, lyres, and other motifs on the angle paterae, along with scroll-shaped acroteria. Between the two rightmost first-floor windows, there is a plaster panel depicting a relief figure of a horse. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Alder Cottace sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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