Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-newel-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Keepers Cottage, Newsells, Barkway
- OS grid reference
- TL 387 371
- Coordinates
- 52.0157, 0.01973
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keepers Cottage is a house that was formerly a gamekeeper's cottage for Newsells Park, dating from the early to mid 17th century. It has a timber frame that is rendered, and features a half hipped, steeply pitched thatched roof. The building has a three bay lobby entry and is one storey with an attic. The entrance is slightly to the right of the centre and is flanked by three light small pane, flush frame casements. There is a tiled gabled dormer with two lights. The original central ridge stack has an added flue to the left. To the right end, there is a one storey lean-to outshut with a slate roof, above which is an attic two light casement. At the rear, there is a catslide roof over a continuous lean-to outshut, a gabled dormer, and an additional slate roofed outshut to the rear left. The interior has not been inspected. Newsells Park House, located nearby, is not listed.
Local climate
Keepers 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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