Turnpike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Turnpike Cottage
- WRENN ID
- first-copper-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Turnpike Cottage, 148/150, High Street, Barkway, SG8 8EG
- OS grid reference
- TL 383 351
- Coordinates
- 51.99776, 0.01343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turnpike Cottage is a house, originally comprising two dwellings, dating from the early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber-framed and has been panelled and rendered. The roof is steeply pitched and thatched. The building has four bays, arranged over two storeys. The ground floor features a high brick plinth, with an entrance situated between the two right-hand bays. This entrance has a panelled door accessed by steps, framed by an architrave with bracketed hood. Four sixteen-pane sash windows are present on the ground floor, set in flush frame surrounds with hoodboards. The first floor has four eight-pane sashes, also in flush moulded frames. A central axial ridge stack has been rebuilt in white brick. The right-hand gable end is weatherboarded with exposed plates and purlins. The left-hand gable end is weatherboarded over a rendered ground floor. A catslide roof extends over a lean-to outshut to the rear right and a central lean-to. Further lean-to additions extend to the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Turnpike 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% 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 — 2 transactions since 2006
- 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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