Shepherds Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.

Shepherds Cottage

WRENN ID
tenth-finial-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1984
Type
House
Address
Shepherds Cottage, Kimpton Road, Codicote, SG4 8ST
OS grid reference
TL 202 182
Coordinates
51.8495, -0.25613
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shepherds Cottage is a house located at right angles to the road, originally built as a pair of cottages in the 17th century. It features a timber frame with brick infill and has a 1981 extension on the northern end, creating a T-shaped plan. The roof is covered with plain tiles and the building stands two storeys high. The gable end displays exposed timber and has an external 17th-century chimney stack, which is enclosed on the ground floor by outshuts from both the 17th and 19th centuries. The eastern elevation has three 19th-century casement windows, and the western elevation features a plastered upper floor. The structure includes three bays of widely spaced studs.

Local climate

Shepherds 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 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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