The Cottage Tudor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. House.

The Cottage Tudor Cottage

WRENN ID
hollow-sandstone-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 May 1968
Type
House
Address
The Cottage Tudor Cottage, 5, Great Green, Pirton
OS grid reference
TL 145 315
Coordinates
51.9703, -0.33423
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage and Tudor Cottage are two houses that were originally one building, dating from the 16th to 17th century and renovated in the 19th century. The structure features a timber frame with roughcast, while the ground floor is cased in red brick, which is painted at the front of the larger northern part (No. 5). It has steep old red tile roofs and is a long, one-and-a-half-storey building set back from the road, facing east. The northern end has a lower two-storey jettied crosswing, and the southern end is set back at ground level, creating an irregular jetty that shelters the entrance to the southern part (No. 3).

A large internal chimney rises through the front roofslope about a third from the southern end, and there is a large projecting rear-wall chimney at the northern part of the hall range. The eastern front has a window on each floor of the gabled crosswing on the right, three windows in the hall range, and a gabled porch to No. 5 situated between the right-hand pair of windows. Above the right-hand window is a gabled dormer at the eaves, and there is a gable with a window above the middle window. The windows are three-light flush casement types. There is one window in the southern gable and another in a short two-storey rear wing that continues the ground floor brickwork and extends further as a single-storey section. The two-storey part has narrow 16th or 17th-century brickwork at the base and features a chimney rising at the southern eaves. The roofs throughout are clasped-purlin types.

Local climate

The Cottage Tudor 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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