Stoneheaps Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. Cottage.
Stoneheaps Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-mantel-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Stoneheaps Cottage, Kimpton Bottom
- OS grid reference
- TL 164 179
- Coordinates
- 51.84824, -0.31042
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stoneheaps Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the late 17th century. It features a timber frame construction, with the ground floor covered in weatherboarding and the upper floor finished with pargetting. The side and rear elevations are made of red brick from the 18th and 19th centuries. The roof is covered with machine tiles. There is a gabled cross wing on the east side that has exposed purlins. On the west side, there are two windows, and the cross wing has one window. The windows are restored leaded casements with two to three lights.
Local climate
Stoneheaps Cottage 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- No related consent applications matched
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