Numbers 1, 3 (Forge Cottage) and 5 (Rosemary 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.
Numbers 1, 3 (Forge Cottage) and 5 (Rosemary Cottage)
- WRENN ID
- vast-chimney-fog
- 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
- Numbers 1, 3 (Forge Cottage) and 5 (Rosemary Cottage), Church Lane, Barkway, SG8 8EJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 384 356
- Coordinates
- 52.0018, 0.01492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of three dwellings, Numbers 1, 3 (Forge Cottage), and 5 (Rosemary Cottage), dates from the late 18th or early 19th century and incorporates a former smithy. The buildings are timber-framed and largely weatherboarded, with some areas rendered. They have tiled roofs with decorative fishscale bands and crest tiles. The front has an irregular arrangement of five windows. The ground floor features a plinth and three entrances: two to the left, vertically panelled, and one recessed to the right. There are also four horizontal sliding sashes, one of three lights, and a fixed casement, all with hoodboards. The first floor has a horizontal sliding sash and two 20th-century 2- and 3-light casements. Ridge stacks are located at the right end, and stacks are present on the front and rear slopes – all with oversailing caps. The right-hand end is rendered and features a small ground-floor, slate-roofed outshut and a first-floor horizontal sliding sash with a half-hip roof. The interior remains uninspected. A portion of Number 1 is within the building at Number 68 High Street.
Local climate
Numbers 1, 3 (Forge Cottage) and 5 (Rosemary 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
- 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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