Vine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House.
Vine Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-obsidian-primrose
- 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
- Vine Cottage, 20, High Street, Ashwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 268 397
- Coordinates
- 52.04136, -0.15189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vine Cottage is a house that dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It was altered in the mid-19th century when the front was faced in white brick, which is now rendered. The building has a timber frame with roughcast gable ends and a plain tile roof. It is two storeys tall and features three windows, with recessed sashes on the ground floor and glazing bar casements on the upper floor. There is a flush panel door located on the left center. To the left, there is a lean-to extension that has a similar door and window. Both doors are adorned with picturesque mid-19th century wooden Tuscan porches that have cusped barge boards. The cottage is said to have been the Dun Cow Public House, according to the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England typescript.
Local climate
Vine 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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