Chestnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1982. House. 2 related planning applications.

Chestnut Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
sacred-stair-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 October 1982
Type
House
Address
Chestnut Tree Cottage, Pedlars Lane, Therfield, SG8 9PX
OS grid reference
TL 334 372
Coordinates
52.01753, -0.05666
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chestnut Tree Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions and alterations made in the 19th century. The structure features a timber frame that is weatherboarded, with some areas rendered. It has a thatched roof, with some sections covered in slates. The cottage has a three-cell lobby entry and has been extended to the left and rear. It is one storey high with an attic.

The front of the cottage has a half-glazed door located between the left and centre bays, flanked by 19th-century canted bays that contain sash windows. To the right on the ground floor is a small pane horizontal sliding sash window. In the attic, there are three similar windows with eyebrow thatching. The cottage has a rebuilt ridge stack and a 19th-century stack at the right end.

To the left, there is an addition that was formerly a shop, which is rendered and has a catslide roof over a projecting lean-to at the front. The left end features a two-light casement window in the attic beneath a half-hipped roof. There is also a one-storey outshut that is weatherboarded, containing three two-light casement windows and topped with a hipped slate roof.

At the rear, there is a 19th-century weatherboarded brick gabled wing with a slate roof and horizontal sliding sash windows. Attached to the right end of the main block is a weatherboarded outbuilding with a corrugated iron roof. Inside, the cottage features stop-chamfered binding beams.

Local climate

Chestnut Tree Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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