Maydencroft Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

Maydencroft Cottage

WRENN ID
floating-vestry-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 May 1987
Type
House
Address
Maydencroft Cottage, Maydencroft Lane, St. Ippolyts, SG4 7QD
OS grid reference
TL 184 271
Coordinates
51.93046, -0.27856
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Maydencroft Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with an 18th-century brick casing and a late 20th-century east extension. The building features a timber frame with a roughcast front and painted brick casing, topped by a steep old red tile roof. It is a two-storey structure set slightly back from the road, facing north. The layout consists of three cells, with a massive chimney stack on the south side of the middle bay and a later projecting chimney on the west gable. The eastern third of the house includes a two-window-wide matching extension. The older section has three windows on each floor, with the entrance located between the left-hand two windows. The first floor features two-light cast iron lattice casements, while the ground floor has three-light casements. There is a plank door situated under the left half of a hipped tile twin porch, which is supported by double-curved brackets.

Local climate

Maydencroft 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
  • 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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