Wrest Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. House. 9 related planning applications.
Wrest Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eastward-wall-hazel
- 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
- Wrest Cottage, Rushden Road, Sandon, SG9 0QN
- OS grid reference
- TL 318 341
- Coordinates
- 51.98986, -0.08122
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wrest Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century. It is timber-framed, with weatherboard and rendered cladding, and has a half-hipped thatched roof. The house was originally three rooms arranged in a lobby-entry plan. It is one storey high with an attic. The ground floor has an entrance between the left and central bays; to the right are two flush-frame glazing bar horizontal sliding sash windows. To the left of the entrance is a 20th-century two-light casement window. In the attic to the right are a small horizontal sliding sash window and a two-light glazing bar casement. An axial stack is constructed of red brick. The right end of the house features a ground floor two-light casement window with exposed plates and an added external stack. The left end is rendered and has casement windows. 20th-century additions have been made to the rear of the building.
Local climate
Wrest 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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