West View Cottage, and Kate's 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.

West View Cottage, and Kate's Cottage

WRENN ID
hidden-soffit-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 May 1987
Type
House
Address
West View Cottage, and Kate's Cottage, Church Lane, Graveley, SG4 7LU
OS grid reference
TL 237 278
Coordinates
51.93554, -0.20208
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Two adjoining houses, West View Cottage and Kate’s Cottage, are located on Church Lane in Graveley. The southern house is likely from the 16th century, while the northern house dates to the 17th century. They are timber-framed structures with roughcast render. The northern house has dark weatherboarding to the first floor and north gable end, featuring a steep roof covered with old red tiles. Kate’s Cottage, the southern house, has a steep-pitched roof now covered with shingles and lower eaves and ridge lines.

The houses form an L-shaped corner building facing west. The northern house is two storeys high, built with an internal chimney and a lobby-entry plan. It has a jettied north gable end and three windows. A gabled brick porch sits opposite the chimney, approximately a third of the way from the southern end of the house. An added gabled dormer window provides increased light to the first floor above the smaller first-floor windows. The windows are flush two-light casements. A gabled dormer window has been added to the north side. The southern house is one and a half storeys high with a swept dormer window on the front roof slope. The entrance is located in an angle with a projecting front-wall chimney, featuring a half-glazed door set within a lean-to, flanked by casement windows. It also has two-light flush casement windows. A lower, gabled, one-and-a-half storey rear wing extends to the southeast, with gable windows visible on the upper floor.

Local climate

West View Cottage, and Kate's 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
  • 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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