Cottage Immediately West of Brocket Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. Cottage.
Cottage Immediately West of Brocket Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
- low-bailey-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cottage Immediately West of Brocket Arms Public House, Bride Hall Lane, Ayot St. Lawrence
- OS grid reference
- TL 195 168
- Coordinates
- 51.83749, -0.26613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a cottage located immediately west of the Brocket Arms public house in Ayot St Lawrence. It dates from the early 17th century and features a timber frame with a painted brick ground floor and infill on the upper floor. The roof is covered with old tiles. The cottage has two windows on the ground floor, which are leaded casements, and the first floor has casements with glazing bars. To the west, there is a lower painted brick extension, and there is also a lower single-storey weatherboarded shed attached to the cottage. This location is notable as the scene of George Bernard Shaw's one-act play "A Village Wooing."
Local climate
Cottage Immediately West of Brocket Arms Public House 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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