Plough Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. House.
Plough Cottage
- WRENN ID
- empty-roof-khaki
- 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
- Plough Cottage, Plough Lane, Sarratt
- OS grid reference
- TL 040 004
- Coordinates
- 51.69359, -0.49666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Plough Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with extensions from the 19th century and alterations in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick nogging and some areas of rebuilding. The roof is tiled and the building consists of two bays and two storeys.
The central entrance is sheltered by a later hipped timber porch. On the ground floor to the left, there is a three-light timber casement window, while to the right, there is a two-light window with a cambered head. The first floor has two-light casements, with some exposed framing visible on the left, including jowled posts, studs, and a mid rail.
The left gable end has a large external stack with offsets, and there is a lean-to attached towards the rear. Inside the gable, exposed braces and queen struts support the collar clasping the purlins. The right gable end features three-light casements, and there is a catslide roof over a lean-to outshut at the rear right. To the rear left, there is a 19th-century addition built of flint and brick, which includes casement windows and an entrance. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Plough 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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