School Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.
School Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-steeple-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- School Cottage, Langley, SG4 7PL
- OS grid reference
- TL 215 224
- Coordinates
- 51.88727, -0.23542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School Cottage is a house that dates from the late 17th century, originally built with a timber frame and later cased in red brick during the 19th century. The brickwork is laid in Flemish bond and is applied in stages to the timber frame. At the western end, there is a lower extension that is dark weatherboarded. The cottage has one and a half storeys, features an end chimney, and has a central entrance facing south, with a single-storey kitchen to the west. There is an internal gable chimney on the west side. The cottage has two gabled dormers at the eaves. The entrance consists of a battened door set in a heavy frame, flanked by two flush three-light mullioned windows that have cast iron lattice casements. The ground floor openings are topped with segmental arches.
Local climate
School 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 84% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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 — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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