Primrose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Primrose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-mortar-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Primrose Cottage, 10, Royal Oak Lane, Pirton, SG5 3QT
- OS grid reference
- TL 149 318
- Coordinates
- 51.97297, -0.32786
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Primrose Cottage, originally a house and now divided into two houses, likely dates to the 17th century or earlier, with a 19th-century extension to the rear and northeast, and a 20th-century projecting gable extension to the northwest. The house is timber-framed and has roughcast rendering, with roughcast for the extensions. It has steeply pitched slate roofs. The original part of the house faces west and has two bays and one and a half storeys, with end chimneys. It features two windows, two plank doors, and two swept dormers set into the eaves. There are projecting end gable chimneys at each end. A gabled extension to the northwest has a window on each floor. The windows are flush casements, and the doors are plank.
Local climate
Primrose Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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