Pin Cottage and Numbers 12 and 16 is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Worker's cottages. 1 related planning application.
Pin Cottage and Numbers 12 and 16
- WRENN ID
- solemn-rubble-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Worker's cottages
- Address
- Pin Cottage and Numbers 12 and 16, 14 and 16, Swan Street, Ashwell, SG7 5NY
- OS grid reference
- TL 266 396
- Coordinates
- 52.0412, -0.15468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pin Cottage and Numbers 12 and 16 are a range of worker's cottages dating from the 17th to 18th century. They feature a timber frame structure that has been encased in mid-19th century brick, which is now painted. The cottages have a low pitched slate roof and are two storeys high with attics. There are two red brick ridge stacks from the 17th to 18th century. The building includes six 20th-century casement windows and four eaves dormers, each with 9-pane casements. There are three doors with 20th-century reeded frames and bracketed hoods. Inside, the ground floor rooms are characterized by heavy chamfered ceiling beams.
Local climate
Pin Cottage and Numbers 12 and 16 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- 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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