Tudor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House.

Tudor Cottage

WRENN ID
idle-courtyard-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 June 1987
Type
House
Address
Tudor Cottage, 11, High Street, Barley, SG8 8HZ
OS grid reference
TL 399 386
Coordinates
52.02817, 0.03825
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tudor Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with parts rebuilt in the 18th century and altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is exposed at the front, with rendered and roughcast infill. The house has a steeply pitched slate roof and consists of two cells with a lobby entry. It is two storeys high, with the earlier bay on the left having a higher plinth, close studding with a middle rail, and upper passing tension braces. The right bay is later and has smaller scantling with similar framing. There are two different sequences of carpenter's numbers on the studs that meet at the center. The entrance is located to the right of center in the later bay, and there are 20th-century two-light casements with leaded glass on the ground floor. A central ridge stack has been partially rebuilt on the right half. The right end is rendered, exposing the plates, and there is a 20th-century lean-to addition at the rear.

Inside, the structure includes cross axial bearers, one run-out and one stop chamfered, run-out chamfered joists, and jowled posts supporting cambered tie beams. The building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Tudor 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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