Castle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

Castle Cottage

WRENN ID
bitter-step-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 May 1987
Type
House
Address
Castle Cottage, Church Green, Wymondley
OS grid reference
TL 214 284
Coordinates
51.94176, -0.23526
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Castle Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with a south extension added in 1950. It features a timber frame with plastered brick infill panels and a steep old red tile roof. The house is 1½ storeys high and has a three-cell layout with an internal chimney and a lobby-entry plan, facing west with the north gable facing the road, along with an added south bay. A large cross-shaped chimney stack is located a third of the way from the north end. The west front has three gabled dormer windows at the eaves, flush casement windows, and a 20th-century gabled entrance porch. The house consists of four bays of timber framing.

Local climate

Castle 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 84% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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