Knowle and Ramblers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1981. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Knowle and Ramblers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fading-tower-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Knowle and Ramblers Cottage, Bucks Hill, Kings Langley, Sarratt, WD4 9AP
- OS grid reference
- TL 054 000
- Coordinates
- 51.6897, -0.47545
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property comprises two houses, Knowle and Ramblers Cottage, dating to the late 18th or early 19th century, with later 19th-century extensions. The construction is primarily flint with red brick dressings and extensions, and some cement rendering. The roof is tiled.
Knowle, on the left-hand side, is a broad two-bay structure with a central entrance. The ground floor has cambered heads over C20 sashes, while the first floor features two-light iron frame casements. Ramblers Cottage, attached to the right, is a single-bay dwelling with a ground-floor entrance. It has a sixteen-pane sash with a cambered head on the ground floor and a two-light iron frame casement on the first floor. A red brick external stack with offsets and an oversailing cap is located at the left end. The roof slopes in a catslide fashion over a lean-to outshut to the rear left. Original stacks are situated at the original right end and a later stack is extruded to the right end. The right gable end and rear elevation are cement rendered.
The rear of the property features two two-storey brick wings with later 19th-century doors and casements. There is also a single-storey red brick central outshut. The interior has not been inspected. The property is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
Knowle and Ramblers 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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