The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-cloister-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Upper Green, Ickleford, SG5 3YF
- OS grid reference
- TL 182 317
- Coordinates
- 51.97161, -0.27958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century. It features a timber frame with roughcast and a steeply pitched old red tile roof, which has a diagonal pattern of lighter tiles. The house is 1 and a half storeys tall and faces south onto the Green. It has two gabled dormers at the eaves and a smaller dormer inserted in the middle. There is a central porch with a plank door that has fancy hinges, and on each side of the porch, there is a two-light small-panes casement window. At the rear, there is a catslide outshut and a short gabled wing on the northwest side. The rear wall has a large chimney on the eastern part, and the roof is supported by side-purlins. Additionally, there is a semi-circular bay window on the eastern gable.
Local climate
The 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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