The Nook and Wayside Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1978. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

The Nook and Wayside Cottages

WRENN ID
young-spire-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Three Rivers
Constituency
South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 July 1978
Type
Cottage
Address
The Nook and Wayside Cottages, the Green, Sarratt, WD3 6BH
OS grid reference
TQ 040 997
Coordinates
51.68711, -0.49628
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Nook and Wayside Cottages are two houses located in Sarratt, dating from the early to mid 17th century, with extensions added in the early to mid 18th century. Wayside Cottage features a timber frame with brick nogging, while The Nook is constructed of brick. Both houses have tiled roofs and are two storeys tall.

Wayside Cottage has three bays, with two gabled timber porches on the ground floor and three and two light casements. The first floor features three sets of three light casements and one set of two light casements. The exposed framing includes posts, rails, and studs. The Nook, to the left, consists of two bays with three light casements, except for two lights on the first floor to the left. The ground floor has cambered heads above the windows, and a central entrance is topped with a gabled timber porch. The eaves are dentilled brick, and there is a ridge stack where the two dwellings meet, along with an extruded stack at the left end. The right gable end is finished in colourwashed brick, and there are lean-to additions at the rear, as well as a later wing to the rear right. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Nook and Wayside 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 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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