Canal Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Watford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Canal Cottage
- WRENN ID
- graven-quoin-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Watford
- Constituency
- Watford MP: Matt Turmaine (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Canal Cottage, Grove Mill Lane, WD17 3TT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 088 986
- Coordinates
- 51.67612, -0.42679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Canal Cottage is an early 19th century brick cottage, situated on Grove Mill Lane. It is a one-storey building in an "L" shape, with hipped slate roofs. The front of the cottage, facing the road, has two windows and a central door. There are also two windows facing the canal. The windows are round-headed, and contain glazing bar sashes. The door is recessed with a round arch, and a blank triangular space above it. A late 19th century single-window extension, with a gabled end and a projecting three-sided window with a lean-to roof, has been added to the side. A brick ridge stack is located on the canal side of the building.
Local climate
Canal Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- 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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