The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-grate-twilight
- 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
- The Old Cottage, 105, High Street, Ashwell, SG7 5NT
- OS grid reference
- TL 264 395
- Coordinates
- 52.03996, -0.15731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house built in two phases, with a low 16th century range at the front and a taller range at the rear left, likely from the 17th century. It features a timber frame, a 19th century brick plinth, and roughcast walls, topped with plain and machine tile roofs. The building has two storeys and includes three casement windows: one on the ground floor to the left and Yorkshire casements in the right bay. A wide ridge chimney stack is situated between the two left bays. The right bay is thought to have been a barn addition and includes a lean-to rear addition. The rear left extension has a taller roof and features a small attic window in the exposed gable, along with two small wood casements and a plank door.
Local climate
The Old Cottage 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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