The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stevenage local planning authority area, England. Small house. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-spire-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stevenage
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Small house
- Address
- The Old Cottage, High Street, SG1 3EJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 231 255
- Coordinates
- 51.91459, -0.21032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a small house dating from the 16th or 17th century. It features an old tiled roof and a large red brick chimney stack, along with two gabled dormers and a right central gable. The building is designed in a T plan, constructed with a timber frame and plaster. It has one storey with attics, and two storeys on the right side. The windows are flush lattice casements, and there is a modern gabled closed porch.
Local climate
The Old 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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