Cottage Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. A C17 House. 5 related planning applications.
Cottage Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grim-flue-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cottage Farmhouse, Kimpton Bottom, SG4 8EU
- OS grid reference
- TL 161 177
- Coordinates
- 51.8463, -0.31527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 17th-century house. In the late 18th century, it was recased in red brick. A northern extension was added around 1930. The central cross wing features shaped gables and exposed purlins. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The house is two storeys high with three casement windows, those on the cross wing having heavy wooden frames. A 17th-century external chimney stack is located on the south gable end, featuring two joined square shafts with tiled projections. Casement windows were replaced around 1965 in the southern bay.
Local climate
Cottage Farmhouse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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