View Cottage, and Avenue Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House.

View Cottage, and Avenue Cottage

WRENN ID
woven-terrace-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 May 1987
Type
House
Address
View Cottage, and Avenue Cottage, Maydencroft Lane, St. Ippolyts
OS grid reference
TL 186 270
Coordinates
51.9294, -0.2758
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

View Cottage and Avenue Cottage is a house that has been divided into two homes. It dates from the 17th century, with some brick casing added in the 18th century, and it was altered and divided in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame with roughcast and panelled pargetting on the first floor at the front. The ground floor of Avenue Cottage has red brick in Flemish bond, and there is also red brick on the east gable end, which returns slightly along the front. The steep roof is covered with red tiles.

This two-storey building has a three-cells plan and is set back from the road, facing north. The north front has three windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor, all of which are flush box sash windows with three panes each. There are two doors in the middle: the left door is a four-panel, half-glazed door with a flat hood supported by shaped brackets, while the right door is a plank door. A very large rear wall chimney projects, featuring crow-step decoration on the middle bay, with an additional projecting chimney on the east gable.

Local climate

View Cottage, and Avenue 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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