The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. House.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-pedestal-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Gun Lane, Knebworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 249 197
- Coordinates
- 51.86269, -0.18647
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house that was originally a farmhouse, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. It features a timber frame and was refaced in the late 19th or early 20th century. The ground floor is made of painted brick, while the upper floor is roughcast. The building has two storeys and consists of two bays, with a single-storey 17th-century wing made of brick and timber frame, along with a one-window extension from around 1960. There are two three-light leaded casements on the ground floor, which have segmental heads. The cottage has gable end chimney stacks. Inside, the far bay retains 16th-century framing, while the near bay features 17th-century elements, including a corridor and staircase turret. The rear elevation includes two gabled dormers.
Local climate
The Old 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 84% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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