Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Well Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-hammer-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Well Cottage, 22 and 24, Church Lane, Kimpton, SG4 8RR
- OS grid reference
- TL 176 185
- Coordinates
- 51.85317, -0.29281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Cottage is a house dating back to the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century. It is timber-framed and has a painted brick casing, covered by a slate roof. The house is one storey high with attics. An 18th-century two-storey extension stands on the south side, and a single-storey block of painted brick and flint is at the south end. The north part of the house retains a continuous 16th-century wall plate, but the north gable end shows later 17th-century construction. Inside, a 16th-century smoke bay remains, although the 16th/17th-century chimney stack was removed in the 20th century. Windows have segmental heads and 18th-century wooden frames. There are two dormers in the slate roof.
Local climate
Well Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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