Crom Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Crom Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-window-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Crom Cottage, Park Lane, Knebworth, SG3 6QA
- OS grid reference
- TL 231 204
- Coordinates
- 51.86889, -0.21304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crom Cottage is a small house dating from the late 17th century. It has a timber frame with a plaster front wall and brick gable ends, all of which are painted. The cottage features a rendered plinth and a plain tile roof. It is one storey high with attics and has three glazing bar casements. There is a plank door located on the right side, towards the centre, and three small gabled attic dormers with two lights each.
Local climate
Crom Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- 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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