Bottom Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1981. Cottage.
Bottom Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-plinth-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bottom Cottage, 20, Kimpton Bottom
- OS grid reference
- TL 165 179
- Coordinates
- 51.84831, -0.30875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bottom Cottage is a mid-18th century cottage that may have an earlier interior. It features chequered red brick with a floor band and has a machine tile roof. The building is one storey with attics and includes two 19th-century casement windows with cambered heads, as well as two gabled attic dormers. The entrance has a flush panel door set in a pegged wood frame. There is a garage added to the west, built around 1970.
Local climate
Bottom 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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