Southern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. House. 4 related planning applications.
Southern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lunar-tallow-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Southern Cottage, Southern Green, Rushden, SG9 0SX
- OS grid reference
- TL 311 317
- Coordinates
- 51.96885, -0.09261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Southern Cottage is a house dating from the 16th or early 17th century, with extensions added in the late 17th or 18th century, and again in the 20th century. It is timber-framed and rendered, with a thatched roof. The house originally comprised three rooms, and was later extended by one bay to the left. It has one storey and an attic. The original entrance is in the left-hand bay, featuring a plank door with a tiled hood supported by timber posts. The windows are mostly 20th-century flush frame casements, with one, two, or three lights, some with leaded glass. There are two dormers with tiled sills. A stack on the right end of the house is slightly extruded. The bay added to the left has a slightly higher roof ridge and a red brick stack. The left end has an extruded stack with offsets, exposing the plates and purlins. The rear is weatherboarded. A 20th-century block with a hipped roof projects forward from the left end. A weatherboarded and tiled garage is attached to the right.
Local climate
Southern 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- 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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