Chapel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House.

Chapel Cottage

WRENN ID
hollow-wall-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1988
Type
House
Address
Chapel Cottage, Hexton
OS grid reference
TL 106 312
Coordinates
51.96858, -0.39127
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chapel Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, which was divided before 1810 and is currently empty, awaiting renovation. It features a timber frame set on a low red brick sill, with red brick infill that is covered by lath and roughcast. The northern chimney is made of squared clunch, and the building has a steep old red tile roof. There is a 19th-century brick lean-to at the rear of the northern part. Originally a single-storey house with two bays and a northern chimney-bay facing west, it has since been modified to include an inserted floor and an added internal southern gable brick chimney with a stair in the southeast corner.

Inside, there is a winding stair with a 17th-century oak panelled door located at the northwest corner in a recess next to an older open fireplace. The cottage is now 1.5 storeys high, featuring two two-light casement windows and a plank door to the left of each window. A gabled dormer on the roofslope of the northern half has collapsed inwards, while there is a window in the southern gable. The interior includes a tiled floor, axial beams, and a clasped-purlin roof with curved wind-braces, and the roof is not smoke blackened. A tie-beam has been cut for a doorway.

Local climate

Chapel Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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