The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1980. A C17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-roof-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, 39, Bridge Road, AL8 6UG
- OS grid reference
- TL 234 132
- Coordinates
- 51.8045, -0.21129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a 17th-century cottage, said to date from 1604, located on the south side of Bridge Road. It is two storeys high with a gable end facing the road and features a tiled roof and a brick stack. The upper storey is rendered, and there is one casement window on each storey, both with diamond-shaped leaded glazing, along with a door that has wood lintels. To the right, there is a small extension with one window. The rear of the cottage is slightly taller and has two small windows and a glazed door, also with wood lintels. The building has a rendered plinth.
Local climate
The Old 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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