Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House.
Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-quoin-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Cottage, Maiden Lane, Weston
- OS grid reference
- TL 263 302
- Coordinates
- 51.95641, -0.162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or early 18th century. It features a timber frame set on a black painted plinth, with roughcast walls and a steep thatched roof that is half-hipped to the east. This small house has two cells and one and a half storeys, positioned on a bank beside the road and facing north. It has two three-light casement windows, along with a single-light window in the eastern part and a swept eyebrow dormer at the eaves. An internal chimney is located slightly from the eastern end. The entrance is on the eastern end, accessed through a plank door to the right of a projecting rectangular thatched bay that contains casement windows. There is also a three-light casement window in the gable above.
Local climate
Old Cottage 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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