Horseshoe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Horseshoe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- young-barrel-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Horseshoe Cottage, West Street, Lilley, LU2 8LH
- OS grid reference
- TL 119 263
- Coordinates
- 51.92401, -0.37377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horseshoe Cottage is a house from the early 18th century that was renovated by the estate in the mid-19th century. It features red brick with a chequered pattern of black headers, along with a red brick porch and a rear outshut beneath a catslide extension of an old steep red tile roof. This small two-cell, two-storey house is set on a bank above the road and faces west. Inside, the south gable chimney suggests that originally only one room and possibly the chamber above were heated. The west front has two windows on each floor and a central entrance with a six-panel door under a gabled porch. The casement windows have been renewed.
Local climate
Horseshoe 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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