Morley Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Stevenage local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1984. House. 7 related planning applications.

Morley Cottages

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stevenage
Constituency
Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1984
Type
House
Address
Morley Cottages, 1 and 2, Chells Lane
OS grid reference
TL 264 253
Coordinates
51.91195, -0.16259
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Morley Cottages is a pair of houses built in the mid-18th century, with early 19th-century end extensions and 20th-century outhouses at each end. They are constructed of red brick with black headers and feature steep old red tile roofs. The two-storey houses, which include attics, have doors that meet in the middle and internal end gable chimneys. The stairs are located on the middle wall, and there is a lower two-storey end extension on each side. The front faces north and has a floorband, chamfered brick corbels supporting gable parapets with overhanging brick coping. Each house has a two-light flush casement window beneath a segmental arch on each floor, along with a small window above the two doors under similar arches. The ground floor features a two-light front window for each extension and one on each floor of the gable end, with a small casement window in the attic of the main house.

Local climate

Morley Cottages 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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