Gladwyn and Brown's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Gladwyn and Brown's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-gateway-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gladwyn and Brown's Cottage, Bury End, Nuthampstead, SG8 8NG
- OS grid reference
- TL 400 348
- Coordinates
- 51.99479, 0.03802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gladwyn and Brown's Cottage is a house, originally comprising three or more dwellings and now used as two separate residences. It dates to the 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century and a 20th-century extension. The building has a timber frame, which is now largely weatherboarded and brick-cased. It features a steeply pitched thatched roof, with four distinct sections. The house is one storey high, with an attic, and has two small-paned flush frame casement windows. A door was removed at the time of inspection. Four dormers are present, featuring eyebrow thatched roofs. A ridge stack with a rebuilt capping sits between the two right-hand bays. The left gable end is constructed from 19th-century red brick, incorporating kneelers to a slate-coped parapet and a rebuilt internal end stack. The rear of the building is weatherboarded. To the right is a 20th-century addition, built of brick and tile, which forms the majority of Brown’s Cottage. Internally, the framing is exposed and altered, with tension braces and a clasped purlin roof. The building is included on the register for its group value.
Local climate
Gladwyn and Brown's 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2001
- 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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