Foxhall Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. House.
Foxhall Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-railing-dew
- 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
- Foxhall Cottage, Kelshall
- OS grid reference
- TL 328 366
- Coordinates
- 52.01255, -0.06565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foxhall Cottage is a house that likely started as two dwellings. It dates from the 16th century, was floored and heated in the 17th century, and underwent extensions in the 18th or 19th centuries, with further alterations in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame with some flint additions, all covered in roughcast, and has a steeply pitched thatched roof. Originally, it had a two-bay open hall, with a stack inserted later and two additional bays added to the right in the 18th and 20th centuries. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with the entrance located in the left bay. It includes 20th-century casements with one, two, and three lights, and three two-light dormers with thatched hoods. A straight joint is visible at the right end of the original building, and there are two ridge stacks between the bays, both with rebuilt caps. The gable end faces the road and has a one-bay low outbuilding attached. Inside, the cottage features an exposed frame with bracing, stop-chamfered bearers and joists, and stairs located behind the earlier stack.
Local climate
Foxhall 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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