Scales Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House.
Scales Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-sentry-hyssop
- 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
- Scales Cottage, Park Farm Lane, Nuthampstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 412 346
- Coordinates
- 51.99247, 0.0561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Scales Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame or clay lump construction on a brick base, and is rendered with a steeply pitched hipped thatched roof. The cottage has a three-cell lobby entry plan and stands two storeys tall with a plinth. The entrance is located to the right of centre and includes a recessed door supported by small brackets for the hood. The windows are 20th-century, consisting of two and three light leaded pane flush frame casements, with hoodboards on the ground floor. There is an axial ridge stack located behind the entrance and a 20th-century stack at the rear left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Scales 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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