Hindsmount Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House.
Hindsmount Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-casement-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hindsmount Cottage, Maydencroft Lane, St. Ippolyts, SG4 7QB
- OS grid reference
- TL 186 271
- Coordinates
- 51.92983, -0.27629
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hindsmount Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with 19th-century extensions. It features roughcast walls on a painted chamfered brick plinth, and the extensions are made of painted brick. The cottage has steep old red tile roofs and is a small, two-storey building with two cells and an end chimney, originally designed with a central entrance facing south. There is an internal gable chimney at the west end, and an added external chimney on the east end for a formerly unheated room. The south front has two windows on each floor and a recess where a central doorway has been blocked. The windows are two-light casement types with external shutters, and there are segmental arches over the ground floor windows. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Hindsmount Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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