Abbis Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Abbis Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-balcony-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbis Cottage, Ickleford, SG5 3TW
- OS grid reference
- TL 184 324
- Coordinates
- 51.97788, -0.27625
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbis Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, with low extensions added to the north and rear in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is roughcast, topped with a steeply pitched roof that is now covered with slate. This small house has one and a half storeys and faces east onto the green. The front includes two flush casement windows with two lights each and a gabled porch in the middle. There is a swept dormer at the eaves above the right-hand window, which has a segmental head and a two-light casement. Inside, there is a large internal chimney on the north gable that serves the northern half of the original two-cell house, along with a later chimney located at the southwest corner. The lower north extension also has a two-light casement window.
Local climate
Abbis 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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