Roly Poly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
Roly Poly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-eave-thunder
- 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
- Roly Poly Cottage, Pudding Lane, Barley, SG8 8JU
- OS grid reference
- TL 400 383
- Coordinates
- 52.02588, 0.0396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Roly Poly Cottage is a house that was originally two dwellings, built in the 17th century and extended in the 18th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. The cottage features a timber frame that is rendered and weatherboarded, topped with a steeply pitched thatched roof. It consists of two cells, with an additional bay added to the left side. The building is one storey high and has a ridge stack located at the original left end, backing onto a through passage. There is a plinth and 20th-century flush frame casements. To the left, there is a weatherboarded kitchen addition with a half hipped end, and small casements are present at the rear. Inside, some of the framing is exposed, showcasing jowled posts and cambered tie beams.
Local climate
Roly Poly 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 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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