Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. House.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- floating-bastion-peregrine
- 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
- Walnut Tree Cottage, Payne End, Sandon
- OS grid reference
- TL 319 345
- Coordinates
- 51.99337, -0.07996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage is a house, originally two dwellings, dating from the late 17th century. It has a timber frame and is roughcast, topped with a steeply pitched thatched roof. The building consists of two cells and stands two storeys high. The original central entrance has been blocked off since the house was divided, and the current entrance is located to the left, featuring a later glazed porch. There are two small triangular bay windows with leaded lights and small casements in between. On the first floor, there are two three-light flush frame casements, also leaded. A red brick axial ridge stack is positioned at the centre of the roof, and there are weatherboarded lean-tos on both ends of the cottage.
Local climate
Walnut Tree 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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