The Bishop's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1976. House. 1 related planning application.
The Bishop's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-finial-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Bishop's Cottage, Mill End, Sandon, SG9 0RN
- OS grid reference
- TL 330 327
- Coordinates
- 51.97765, -0.06402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bishop's Cottage is a 17th-century house that was originally two dwellings. It features a timber frame that is rendered and has a half hipped thatched roof. The building consists of three bays and is one storey high with an attic. There is a central entrance that is sheltered by a timber and pantiled open porch. On the ground floor, there are three small horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars, along with two outer entrances that have glazed doors. In the attic, there is a double horizontal sliding sash window on the right and a three-light casement window on the left, both with thatched eyebrows. The ridge stack is located to the left of the center, and there is an external stack with offsets at the right end. The left end of the cottage is weatherboarded.
Local climate
The Bishop'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 91% 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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