Brownings Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. House.
Brownings Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eternal-vestry-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brownings Cottage, Brownings Lane, King's Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 147 223
- Coordinates
- 51.8876, -0.33419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brownings Cottage is a house that dates back to the 17th century, with a southern extension added in the early 19th century and a porch from the 20th century on the west side. The cottage features a timber frame that is roughcast, while the southern end is plastered and finished to resemble ashlar stone. It has a steep old red tile roof, with a lower pitch at the southern end. The building stands tall at two storeys with attics and has a three-cell internal chimney plan, facing west, along with a lower two-storey single-cell extension to the south.
The west front is irregular, showcasing three two-light casement windows on both the first and ground floors. There is a large hipped porch at the southern end of the older part of the house, and an attic window is located between the purlin-ends of the roof at the southern gable of the higher section. Inside, a large internal chimney is positioned a third of the way from the southern end of the original house, featuring the stumps of three diagonally set square shafts that are connected under a later cap. Additionally, there is a small external chimney on the northern gable.
Local climate
Brownings 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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