High Spring Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. House.
High Spring Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-pewter-sienna
- 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
- High Spring Cottage, Bucks Hill, Sarratt
- OS grid reference
- TQ 057 998
- Coordinates
- 51.68734, -0.47187
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Spring Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with later modifications in the 18th century and extensions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that has been cased and extended in brick, all of which is rendered and whitewashed. The cottage has steeply pitched tiled roofs and is laid out in an L shape, comprising a three-bay front range and a two-bay wing at the rear right.
The house has two storeys, with a central entrance that includes a later gabled porch. On the ground floor, there are two-light 20th-century casement windows, while the first floor has one, two, and three-light 20th-century casements. The building has dentilled brick eaves and an extruded stack at the left end. The right gable end features a ground floor three-light casement with a cambered head and two lights on the first floor. The entrance and casements are located in the lower rear wing. There is a large ridge stack with an oversailing cap and dentilled eaves at the rear of the main range, along with a lean-to at the rear of the wing. The rear right has 19th and 20th-century additions, which are partly weatherboarded and have a hipped roof. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
High Spring 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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