Poplar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Poplar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-tallow-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Poplar Cottage, Pudding Lane, Barley, SG8 8JU
- OS grid reference
- TL 400 383
- Coordinates
- 52.02577, 0.03966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Poplar Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions from the 18th or 19th century and alterations made in the 20th century. The structure features a timber frame on a brick base and is rendered. It has a steeply pitched thatched roof and follows a two-cell lobby entry plan, consisting of one storey and an attic. The central entrance is located in a projecting tiled porch addition. On either side of the entrance are two-light small pane flush frame casements with hoodboards. There is a dormer with eyebrow thatching on the right side, and to the far right, the roof is hipped over a one-storey outshut addition that has a small window at the front. The left end has a half hipped design with two-light casements and exposed plates. A central ridge stack features a rebuilt cap. At the rear, there is an oven projection with 20th-century casements. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Poplar Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- 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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