Ashtree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Ashtree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- empty-glass-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ashtree Cottage, 124/126, High Street, Barkway, SG8 8EG
- OS grid reference
- TL 383 353
- Coordinates
- 51.99933, 0.01411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashtree Cottage is a house that was once two separate dwellings, dating from the early and late 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame resting on a brick base, with a rendered exterior and the left gable end cased in brick. It has a steeply pitched thatched roof and consists of five bays with a lobby entry, built in two phases, with three bays on the left being the earlier section. The house is one storey with an attic.
On the ground floor, there are steps leading up to the entrance located to the right of the center, which is covered by a raking hood made of slates. The front facade includes three three-light lattice casement windows with cornices and one two-light casement window to the left of the center, which has replaced an earlier entrance. The roof features five two-light lattice dormers with raking thatched heads. There is a ridge stack behind the entrance with a rebuilt cap and a stack at the left end. The building displays exposed plates and purlins, and the rear has similar casements and dormers.
Inside, the cottage has exposed framing, passing tension braces, jowled posts, and a clasped purlin roof with curved windbraces in the left bay.
Local climate
Ashtree 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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