Home Park Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1980. A C19 Cottages. 5 related planning applications.
Home Park Cottages
- WRENN ID
- proud-pillar-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1980
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Home Park Cottages, 7, 8, 9 and 10, Station Road, Abbots Langley, WD4 8LD
- OS grid reference
- TL 078 024
- Coordinates
- 51.71006, -0.4406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of four houses dating from approximately 1826, built as part of the Home Park Mills complex by John Dickinson to provide accommodation for workers in paper production. The cottages are constructed of rendered flint and red brick, with a half-hipped tiled roof. They are two storeys high with an attic. The front has a four-window arrangement, with two entrances centrally positioned. The ground floor windows are 16-pane sashes with segmental heads, while the first-floor windows are 9-pane sashes, all recessed. A dentil brick eaves course is present. Two hipped dormers, each with a horizontal sliding sash window, are located over the inner windows. Two ridge stacks have oversailing courses. Entrances are to be found in the left return and a lean-to addition on the right return. Small sashes are present in the attic, with the one to the right constructed of red brick. Lean-to outshuts are located at the ends and to the rear. The rear fenestration mirrors that of the front. The interior has not been inspected. These cottages form part of a planned group, arranged symmetrically with a 2:4:4:2 arrangement, and are associated with Nos. 1-6 and 11, 12 Home Park Cottages.
Local climate
Home Park Cottages 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
- Sale history — 19 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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