Manor Gardens Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Manor Gardens Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-forge-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor Gardens Cottage, Park Lane, Knebworth, SG3 6QB
- OS grid reference
- TL 230 203
- Coordinates
- 51.86827, -0.21486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Gardens Cottage is a house with a 17th-century wing on the right and a modern extension added around 1960. The original wing is constructed with timber framing and has plaster, flint, and brick infill, featuring an exposed timber corner post on the right end. The cottage has one storey and attics, with two windows; the ground floor has 1960s glazing bar casements, while the gabled attics have 19th and 20th-century casements. The roof is made of machine tiles. The extension is plastered, stands two storeys high, and has one window.
Local climate
Manor Gardens 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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