Flint Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1990. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Flint Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Flint Cottage, Troutstream Way, Chorleywood
- OS grid reference
- TQ 047 963
- Coordinates
- 51.65652, -0.48708
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Flint Cottage is a gamekeeper's cottage, dating to circa 1820, and now used as a house. It has undergone alterations and additions in the mid-19th century and the 20th century. The construction is primarily flint with red brick bands at the sills and eaves, quoins, and vertical strips framing the windows. The roof is hipped and covered in Welsh slate, with brick end stacks topped with terracotta pots. The cottage is two storeys high and originally consisted of two bays, with a parallel rear range added in the mid-19th century, a side outshut to the right, and a late 20th-century single-storey wing to the rear right.
The north-east elevation features pointed-arched windows with two-light, four-pane casements, each with Y-tracery to the head. The outshut has a four-panel door set within a flat brick arch, now partially glazed and sheltered by a brick-and-weatherboard porch. A narrow window has been inserted to the left of the front range. The rear elevation has large windows with cambered brick arches and small-pane metal windows. The right return features two windows to the rear in the outshut.
Internally, the original front range retains old doors, plain surrounds to original fireplaces, and a steep staircase under the stairs. The outshut includes a large fireplace in the kitchen (at the rear), an old stone sink, and the remains of a pump with a swept, heart-stopped handle in the scullery (at the front).
Local climate
Flint 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 2001
- 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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