Frythe Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1974. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Frythe Cottages
- WRENN ID
- second-string-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1974
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Frythe Cottages, 1-4, Nightingale Road, SG5 1QS
- OS grid reference
- TL 186 297
- Coordinates
- 51.95369, -0.27479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Frythe Cottages, located on Nightingale Road, are a row of four cottages dating from the early to mid 19th century. The front is constructed of red brick and features a steeply pitched tiled roof. The buildings rise two storeys with attics, each having four gabled dormers. There are eight windows in total, with alterations made to the ground floor, while the first floor retains leaded casements.
Local climate
Frythe Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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