The Cottage Loaf is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1977. A C18/C19 House.
The Cottage Loaf
- WRENN ID
- swift-terrace-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage Loaf, Stevenage Road, St. Ippolyts
- OS grid reference
- TL 198 270
- Coordinates
- 51.92911, -0.25876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage Loaf is a house located on the south side of Stevenage Road in St. Ippollitts. It dates from the late 18th century or early 19th century and was altered around 1840 to serve as a village bakehouse, functioning as a shop until 1976. The building was converted back into a house after the oven was removed in 1977. It features cob walls on brick foundations, with a roughcast finish and a dark painted plinth. The steep slate roof is half-hipped and has a very wide overhang at the eaves and verges, which protects the walls.
The structure is two storeys high and three windows wide, facing north along the roadside. It has gable chimneys made of red brick that are set flush with the outer gable walls. The roof extends downward and has a catslide over a rear outshut. The north front has three flush, two-light small-pane casement windows on each floor, with a battened door located between the first and second windows from the eastern end.
Local climate
The Cottage Loaf 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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