St Hughs Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

St Hughs Cottage

WRENN ID
tangled-step-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
St Hughs Cottage, 82/83, the Green, Offley, LU2 8PY
OS grid reference
TL 126 235
Coordinates
51.89917, -0.36483
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Hugh's Cottage is a building that consists of two cottages now combined into one house. It dates from the early 18th century and was Gothicised in the 19th century by the Sowerby estate. The structure is made of red brick with a roughcast front and features a roof covered in shingles with wide plastered eaves soffits.

The building is symmetrical, with four windows facing east and set back on the edge of the green. There are single-storey lean-tos on each end. Inside, there is a central internal chimney and a lobby entrance with a porch. Above the porch, there is a blind recess. The ground floor has paired windows and two blocked doorways at the outer corners. The first floor features regularly spaced windows, which are 2-light cast iron lattice casement windows.

Local climate

St Hughs Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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