Horn Hill Cottage and Shire Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1975. House. 3 related planning applications.
Horn Hill Cottage and Shire 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
- 16 July 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Horn Hill Cottage and Shire Cottage, Old Shire Lane, SL9 0RD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 017 927
- Coordinates
- 51.62449, -0.53169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horn Hill Cottage and Shire Cottage are two houses located on Old Shire Lane in Chalfont St. Peter. They were likely built in the early 17th century and have been extended in the 18th and 19th centuries, with alterations made in the 20th century. The original house probably has a timber frame, which has been extended in brick and rendered. The roofs are made of tile and slate.
Horn Hill Cottage was originally two bays and may have had an open hall; it is now one storey with an attic. A two-storey, two-bay house was added to the left. The front of Horn Hill Cottage features two two-light casement windows, a gabled dormer, and another two-light casement where it connects to the later house. There is a single light window in the right gable end. The left end stack, which was originally external, has been incorporated into the ridge of Shire Cottage.
The central entrance is set in a reveal beneath a gabled hood supported by cut brackets. There are two-light casement windows flanking the entrance on the ground floor and to the left on the first floor, along with a left end stack. To the right of the original range, there is a one-storey, three-bay 19th-century addition with buttress pilasters and a slate roof that is hipped to the right. At the rear of the original range, there is a lean-to addition that serves as the current entrance and features two gabled dormers. There is also a lean-to at the rear left of the later block. The interior has not been inspected. Shire Cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Horn Hill Cottage and Shire Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 1996
- 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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