Greenside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. House. 1 related planning application.

Greenside Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 May 1968
Type
House
Address
Greenside Cottage, Well Head, Therfield
OS grid reference
TL 334 372
Coordinates
52.01722, -0.05653
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Greenside Cottage is a house, originally two dwellings, dating from the mid to late 16th century. The structure combines timber framing on a brick base, with rendered and weatherboarded walls and a thatched roof. It was originally a double-ended hall house, later altered to a three-bay lobby entry hall range plan. The house has a single-storey and attic main range and two-storey cross wings.

The entrance is positioned to the right of the centre, accompanied by a single-light casement window to its left. The outer hall bays feature ground floor three-light casement windows, while the attic has dormers with weatherboarded gables. An original axial brick ridge stack rises from the centre of the house, featuring three octagonal shafts. Each cross wing possesses three-light casements on the ground floor and two-light casements on the first floor, which are jettied and ornamented with curved brackets and cusped bargeboards. A second entrance is located to the left.

The right end of the house is weatherboarded and incorporates a 19th-century external stack. The left end has a ground floor three-light casement and a weatherboarded first floor with a horizontal sliding sash window. A wing extending to the left projects further to the rear, featuring a hipped roof over a weatherboarded ground floor and a horizontal sliding sash window on the first floor. The main range to the rear presents casement windows and dormers. The right wing has a catslide roof over a projecting lean-to to the rear, containing an entrance.

Local climate

Greenside 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
  • 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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