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

Cannons Cottage

WRENN ID
dusted-steel-khaki
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
Cannons Cottage, Church End, Barley
OS grid reference
TL 402 385
Coordinates
52.02753, 0.04299
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cannons Cottage is a house that was once two dwellings, dating from the early to mid 17th century and altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame construction that is rendered and partially weatherboarded, with asbestos tiles covering its steeply pitched half hipped roof. The building has a two-cell lobby entry plan and is one storey with an attic.

There are two central plank doors, with the right door featuring a small rectangular fanlight above it. The outer windows are three-light small pane flush frame casements with hoodboards. The original cross axial ridge stack is located at the center and has two conjoined diagonal shafts. The left end of the cottage is weatherboarded and includes an attic two-light casement with exposed plates. The right end has a 19th-century external stack and a two-light attic casement towards the rear, along with a 20th-century lean-to outshut. The rear of the cottage has 20th-century casements. Inside, some of the framing is exposed.

Local climate

Cannons 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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