King's Field Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. Row of dwellings. 3 related planning applications.

King's Field Cottages

WRENN ID
hallowed-flint-rush
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
Row of dwellings
Address
King's Field Cottages, 1-4, Tibbs Hill Road, Abbots Langley, WD5 0LH
OS grid reference
TL 097 017
Coordinates
51.70403, -0.41274
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

King's Field Cottages is a row of four dwellings, likely originally a barn, dating from the 17th century. The building was converted and refronted in the late 18th century and has been altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of red brick with some timber framing and part weatherboarding, topped with a tiled roof. The cottages are two storeys high, featuring a four-window front and four entrances. The two entrances on the left have plank doors with gabled hoods, while the two on the right have later gabled porches. The ground floor has three-light casements with cambered heads, some of which include 20th-century leaded lights. The first floor also has three-light casements and a central stone in a moulded panel inscribed "King's Field Cottages." There is a moulded brick course at the eaves. The building has a central cross axial stack and external end stacks with offsets. The gable ends are rendered and weatherboarded. At the rear, there is weatherboarding over the rendered ground floor, two and three-light casements, and two gabled dormers. There is a lean-to outshut at the rear and a one-storey outbuilding attached to the right. Inside, there is a clasped purlin roof with windbraces. To the left, there is a late 20th-century extension that is not of special interest.

Local climate

King's Field Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
  • 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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