Holly Frindle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Holly Frindle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-bronze-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Holly Frindle Cottage, Cooper's Lane, Northaw and Cuffley, EN6 4NE
- OS grid reference
- TL 270 019
- Coordinates
- 51.70165, -0.16325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Frindle Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed cottage with a front made of yellow stock brick from the early 19th century. It has a plain tile roof and a south gable end that is finished in painted brick. The cottage features an external chimney stack with a square base and two diagonal-set flues. There are two floor bands and the building stands two storeys high. It has three recessed cast iron small pane casements, with the ground floor windows having Gothic top panes. A modern gabled porch has been added to the front, along with a rear chimney stack and a central 20th-century projection.
Local climate
Holly Frindle Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- 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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