Tower Cottage (Including Attached Rear Outbuildings) is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Tower Cottage (Including Attached Rear Outbuildings)
- WRENN ID
- hushed-zinc-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tower Cottage (Including Attached Rear Outbuildings), 5, Swan Street, Ashwell, SG7 5NY
- OS grid reference
- TL 267 396
- Coordinates
- 52.04119, -0.15382
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Cottage is a house from the 19th century that features a painted brick exterior covering a timber frame that dates back to the 18th century or earlier. It has a steeply pitched plain tile roof and stands two storeys tall. The upper floor has two recessed sash windows, while the ground floor has a pair of segmental-headed glazing bar casements on the left side, and on the right side, there is a door and a window paired under a bracketed hood. At the back, there is a two-storey extension made of plastered timber frame, with the east side showcasing an 18th-century two-light leaded casement. Additionally, there is an 18th-century lean-to made of brick and timber frame on the rear left. Inside, the house features exposed floor beams and a stone vaulted cellar.
Local climate
Tower Cottage (Including Attached Rear Outbuildings) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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