Fir Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1975. House.
Fir Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- distant-passage-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fir Tree Cottage, Green End, Sandon
- OS grid reference
- TL 327 335
- Coordinates
- 51.98445, -0.06824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree Cottage is a house that was originally two dwellings, built in the 17th century and later altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The cottage features a timber frame with roughcast exterior and has a steeply pitched slate roof. It is composed of three cells and stands two storeys tall.
The front facade includes two recessed doors located in the central and right bays, with the central door featuring a simple bracketed hood. On the ground floor, there are 8:4 pane sash windows on the left and centre, and a two-light casement window on the right. The first floor has three small pane two-light casement windows, all with flush frames.
An external stack with offsets is located at the left end, while a cross axial ridge stack is positioned between the centre and right bays. At the rear left, there is a catslide roof over a lean-to outshut. Additionally, a one-storey weatherboarded outbuilding extends to the rear right.
Local climate
Fir Tree 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 77% 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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