Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

Church Cottage

WRENN ID
stark-gateway-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 June 1987
Type
House
Address
Church Cottage, Church End, Barley, SG8 8JP
OS grid reference
TL 401 384
Coordinates
52.02635, 0.04065
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with extensions from the 18th or 19th century. It features a timber frame on a brick base, which is rendered, and has half hipped thatched roofs. The building consists of three bays and is one storey with an attic, along with a two-bay, one-storey addition on the left side. The entrance is located in a 20th-century tiled lean-to porch on the left. The central window is a three-light flush frame 20th-century lattice casement, and there are two three-light dormers with eyebrow thatching. A cross axial ridge stack is positioned to the right of the center. The two-bay addition on the left has two-light lattice casements. The right end facing the road is weatherboarded and includes a ground floor two-light lattice casement and an attic two-light casement, with exposed plates. The left end features a 20th-century external stack, while the rear is rendered. Inside, the cottage has exposed framing with axial and cross axial stop-chamfered bearers and tension bracing.

Local climate

Church 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
  • 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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