The Old Cottage and Pond Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage and Pond Cottage
- WRENN ID
- empty-brick-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage and Pond Cottage, Chorleywood Common, WD3 5LT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 030 967
- Coordinates
- 51.66005, -0.51094
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage and Pond Cottage are two houses with origins dating back to the 16th century, with additions from the 17th century. They were cased and extended in the 18th century and underwent further alterations and extensions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The core structure is timber framed, with red brick casing and additions, and both houses have tiled roofs.
The Old Cottage originally consisted of two bays, possibly an open hall, and now features a one-bay rear wing, with additional extensions to the rear and to the right, which now form Pond Cottage. Both houses are two storeys high. The front of The Old Cottage has a 20th-century extruded stack at the centre with two diagonal shafts. To the left, there are horizontal sliding sash windows on the ground and first floors with cambered heads, while the right side has 20th-century casements. The eaves are dentilled brick, and the left end gable is tile-hung. The rear features a horizontal sliding sash on the first floor and dentilled brick eaves.
At the point where the rear wing meets the main range, there is an entrance with a hipped roof porch supported by timber posts. The 17th-century bay has 20th-century casements with exposed framing and some renewed brick nogging. The two bays at the rear include an entrance and a first-floor horizontal sliding sash, with a half-hipped roof at the rear end and a ridge stack. There are 19th and 20th-century additions to the rear right.
Pond Cottage has a two-bay front from the 18th century, with an entrance to the left in a later gabled timber porch. The right side features two-light timber casements on both the ground and first floors, while the left side has a first-floor horizontal sliding sash, all with cambered heads. The eaves are also dentilled brick, and there is a stack at the right end. A one-storey rear wing is built of stock brick from the 19th century.
Inside The Old Cottage, there is an ogee stop-chamfered binding beam and exposed framing, although the first floor has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Cottage and Pond 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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