Pilgrims Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Pilgrims Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-step-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pilgrims Cottage, Ashwell Road, Newnham, SG7 5JX
- OS grid reference
- TL 245 374
- Coordinates
- 52.02165, -0.18601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pilgrims Cottage is a 17th-century house that has been altered. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a central axial ridge stack built of red brick. The roof is steeply pitched and thatched, with tiles surrounding the thatch and two gabled dormers. Originally a two-cell lobby-entry house, it is one storey and attic with a plinth. The original entrance, located below the central stack, is now blocked. There are three tall 19th or 20th-century two-light timber casement windows: one to the left, and two to the right. Similar windows are found in the dormers to the left and right of the stack, as well as on the returns. A 20th-century entrance porch has been added to the left gable wall. A small, two-storey, thatched gabled extension is attached to the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Pilgrims Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% 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 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 4 transactions since 2010
- 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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