Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Willow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-hearth-ivy
- 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
- Willow Cottage, Bell Lane, Nuthampstead, SG8 8ND
- OS grid reference
- TL 402 346
- Coordinates
- 51.99287, 0.04141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage is a house built in the early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century and an extension added in the 20th century. The structure features a timber frame that is rendered, with some sections cased in red brick. It has a steeply pitched roof covered in cedar shingles. The house consists of three main sections with a short extension on the left side and stands two storeys tall. The entrance is located in the right bay and includes a recessed half-glazed door with a small hood above it. The windows on the ground floor are two-light casements with small panes, and above each first-floor window, there is a small gablet also covered in shingles. A ridge stack from the 18th century is positioned between the central and left bays. The left end of the house is roughcast and has an entrance, while the right gable end is made of 19th-century red brick and features an internal stack. At the rear, there are 20th-century casements and a single-storey lean-to extension on the right side. Inside, some of the framing is exposed, showcasing tension braces and stop-chamfered bearers.
Local climate
Willow 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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