Foundry Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House.
Foundry Cottage
- WRENN ID
- odd-roof-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Foundry Cottage, St. Ippolyts
- OS grid reference
- TL 195 270
- Coordinates
- 51.92956, -0.2628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foundry Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century. It features a timber frame with roughcast exterior and a painted brick lean-to on the west side. The roof is made of old red tiles in a gambrel style, with a half-hip at the eastern end and a slated lean-to on the west. The house is 1 1/2 storeys high and has a two-cell layout with end chimneys, positioned backing onto the road and facing south. The south front includes two box dormers, two three-light casement windows, and a door in the middle. The lower part of the eastern gable has a projection that likely serves as an oven. There is also a single large box dormer on the north side.
Local climate
Foundry 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 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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