Sring Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. House. 1 related planning application.
Sring Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-rubble-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sring Cottage, 2, Springhead, Ashwell, SG7 5LL
- OS grid reference
- TL 270 397
- Coordinates
- 52.04195, -0.14897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spring Cottage is a house that dates from the mid-18th century, although it may have an earlier core. It has a timber frame with roughcast walls and a plain tile gable end roof. The building is two storeys high with attics. On the ground floor, there is a panelled door located towards the left, which features a mutulated pedimented hood and fluted dentilled pilasters. There are also two triple-hung sash windows. The upper floor has two 8/8-pane sash windows, along with a central gabled dormer and a red brick ridge stack. To the left, there is a lean-to, likely from the 18th century, which includes another triple-hung sash window. This building was formerly known as the Waggon and Horses Public House.
Local climate
Sring 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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- 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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