Wintergreen Cottages (2 Dwellings) is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. A C17-C18 Cottage.
Wintergreen Cottages (2 Dwellings)
- WRENN ID
- shifting-chancel-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wintergreen Cottages (2 Dwellings), Hitchin Road, Knebworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 220 210
- Coordinates
- 51.87429, -0.22912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wintergreen Cottages is a range of cottages dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. Originally consisting of four tenements, it has since been converted into two dwellings. The cottages are constructed with a timber frame and are plastered, featuring a steeply pitched machine tile roof. They are one storey high with attics, and include four casement windows along with four gabled casement dormers. The front has three doors, with an additional door located at the far gable end. There is a central ridge chimney stack and two similar stacks at the gable ends. At the rear, there is a continuous extension that is weatherboarded and dates from the 19th century. The roof structure includes clasped purlins, and it is possible that the cottages were built in two phases.
Local climate
Wintergreen Cottages (2 Dwellings) 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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