New England House, and New England Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. A Post-medieval House. 3 related planning applications.
New England House, and New England Cottage
- WRENN ID
- frozen-corridor-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- New England House, and New England Cottage, London Road, St. Ippolyts, SG4 7NG
- OS grid reference
- TL 189 277
- Coordinates
- 51.93599, -0.27073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
New England House and New England Cottage comprise a house, originally one building, now divided into two dwellings. The core of the house dates to the 17th century, with a lower, projecting crosswing added to the north. A late 19th-century parallel front block was built on the east, and an early 20th-century parallel block extends to the rear. The central block and north crosswing are timber-framed and roughcast, while later additions are of red brick. The roofs are steeply pitched and tiled, with old red tiles. The house is set back from the road on its eastern side, with the north crosswing projecting to the east. There are two-storey parallel blocks to the west and east of the central block, and a small two-storey block is attached to the north side of the lower north crosswing. It has box dormer windows on the roof of the central block and a large external south gable chimney built from red brick, featuring three conjoined square shafts. The two parallel blocks have two-storey canted bay windows to their south gables. The building served as The Black Horse public house from at least 1799 until 1889; a 1805 sales catalogue listed a parlour, two kitchens, and a small front room. It is thought that the enclosure of common lands was administered from the site between 1811 and 1818.
Local climate
New England House, and New England 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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