Kingswell End Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. A 17th century Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Kingswell End Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hollow-brass-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Kingswell End Cottage, King's Walden, SG4 8LR
- OS grid reference
- TL 153 247
- Coordinates
- 51.90953, -0.32509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kingswell End Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, with a western extension added in the 1960s. The original section is timber-framed and roughcast, while the extension is red brick. Both have steep red tile roofs. The cottage is a small, rectangular, single-cell house, set back from the road facing south. A large internal eastern gable chimney rises from a narrow room at the northeast corner containing the staircase. The original door, situated near the western corner, is now blocked; access is now through the extension. A three-light casement window is on the ground floor, and a three-light and a two-light window are on the first floor. The axial floor beam has an ovolo moulding.
Local climate
Kingswell End 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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