Moss Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. House.
Moss Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-pediment-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Moss Cottage, the Heath, King's Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 148 225
- Coordinates
- 51.88975, -0.33204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moss Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations and an extension to the north made in the 18th or 19th century. The building features a timber frame with roughcast, while the ground floor of the crosswing and the front of the hall range are made of painted brick. It has steep old red tile roofs and is a small two-storey house facing east, with a south crosswing that does not project. There is a plank door located under a lean-to porch next to the crosswing. The first floor has three two-light flush casement windows with small panes. On the ground floor, there are two windows in the crosswing, a window to the right of the porch, and a bow window set further back to the right (north). A large external chimney is located on the south side of the crosswing.
Local climate
Moss 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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