The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1985. Lodge.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-courtyard-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1985
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- The Cottage, Barkway
- OS grid reference
- TL 386 369
- Coordinates
- 52.01358, 0.01818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a lodge to Newsells Park, built in 1804. It features a rendered clay lump construction with timber dressings and a half hipped thatched roof, designed in the cottage orné style. The building is one storey with an attic and consists of two bays. The entrance is located at the right end facing the drive, featuring a panelled door with a four-centred arched head set in a rustic timber surround, along with a thatched rustic open porch. The windows are two-light casements with upper leaded panes, rustic timber mullions, and segmental heads, all with chamfered surrounds. The attic lights on the ends have rustic timber dripmoulds, with the date displayed above the one facing the drive. A central ridge stack has three octagonal shafts made of plum brick, two of which are original and one added later. At the rear, there is a catslide roof over a continuous lean-to outshut, which has recessed windows. The interior has not been inspected. Newsells Park House is not listed.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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