Ravello Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Ravello Rose Cottage
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- 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
- Ravello Rose Cottage, Smith End, Barley, SG8 8LH
- OS grid reference
- TL 400 376
- Coordinates
- 52.01983, 0.03965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ravello Rose Cottage is a house that was once two or three separate dwellings, dating from the early 18th century and altered in the early and later 20th century. It is constructed of clay lump, primarily chalk, and has a roughcast finish. The cottage features a steeply pitched thatched roof and consists of four bays across two storeys. The windows are horizontal sliding sashes set in flush moulded frames, with some small pane casements. On the ground floor, there are two early 20th-century porches that have been converted into bay windows with small pane glazing and sham framing beneath tiled gabled heads. The cottage has a central axial ridge stack, a hipped outshut on the left end with a plank door and a three-light casement in the return, and a machine-tiled lean-to outshut on the right end with an early 20th-century tiled entrance porch. The gable ends display exposed plates. Inside, there is a runout chamfered axial bearer. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Ravello Rose 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.
- 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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