The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-turret-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, King's Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 160 245
- Coordinates
- 51.90762, -0.31501
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is an early 18th-century house located in Kings Walden. It features a timber frame that is roughcast, with brick casing at the southern end. The building has a very steep old red tile roof and is small, consisting of two storeys and attics, arranged in a two-cell layout with end chimneys and a central entrance facing west. There is a 20th-century lean-to extension at the northern end. Originally, only the southern rooms were heated. The west front has a stucco plinth, with the ground floor cased in red brick arranged in a chequered pattern with black bricks, while the upper parts are roughcast. The roof slope has two gabled dormers, each with two-light casements. There are two casement windows on each floor, with configurations of two and three lights, along with the central entrance. A large projecting external chimney is located at the original southern gable, and there is a 19th-century internal chimney at the northern gable.
Local climate
The 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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