Beam Ends Cottage and 16 is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. Cottage.

Beam Ends Cottage and 16

WRENN ID
winding-spire-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Beam Ends Cottage and 16, 14 and 16, Church Lane, Kimpton
OS grid reference
TL 177 184
Coordinates
51.85239, -0.29233
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Beam Ends Cottage and No. 16 is a pair of cottages dating from the 16th century, featuring a timber frame core. In the early 18th century, they were encased in red brick. The cottages have a plain tile roof with two internal gable end stacks; the eastern stack has an early brick base and a 16th-century moulded bressumer in the inglenook inside. There are two large gable additions to the rear, added around 1975. The front elevation includes a plinth and floor band, with four 20th-century casement windows in the original openings and two segmental-headed doors. They were formerly known as Church Cottages.

Local climate

Beam Ends Cottage and 16 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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