Blythe Cottage and South Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. Pair of houses.

Blythe Cottage and South Cottage

WRENN ID
stony-vestry-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 June 1987
Type
Pair of houses
Address
Blythe Cottage and South Cottage, Smith End, Barley
OS grid reference
TL 400 377
Coordinates
52.0202, 0.0398
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blythe Cottage and South Cottage are a pair of houses built in the 18th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. They feature a timber frame on a brick base, covered in roughcast, and have a steeply pitched roof made of machine tiles. Each house has two bays and stands two storeys tall. The entrances are located at the ends and are topped with brackets supporting raking tiled hoods. Blythe Cottage, on the left, has a three-light flush frame casement on the ground floor and a two-light flush frame casement on the first floor. South Cottage, on the right, has 20th-century two-light casements. There is a central ridge stack and one-storey early lean-to outshut additions on both gable ends, along with later outshuts at the rear. Inside, some of the framing is exposed and features tension braces. The cottages are included for their group value.

Local climate

Blythe Cottage and South 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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