The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. House.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-rubble-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, 49, Lemsford Village
- OS grid reference
- TL 219 122
- Coordinates
- 51.79602, -0.23315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century. It is timber framed and features modern roughcast on plaster and red brick. The building has one storey and attics, topped with a clasped purlin roof covered in old tiles, which includes two gabled dormers and a red brick chimney stack at the southwest end. The front of the cottage has two sloping buttresses and two casement windows. There is a cross wing on the southwest with a tile-hung gablet above the ridge.
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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