Cunliffe Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1974. Residential.
Cunliffe Cottages
- WRENN ID
- stony-trefoil-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1974
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Cunliffe Cottages, Ayot St. Lawrence
- OS grid reference
- TL 198 166
- Coordinates
- 51.83532, -0.2619
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cunliffe Cottages is a house dating from the 17th century, featuring a timber frame with red brick nogging added in the 18th century. The building has two storeys and an old tile roof that slopes down to the ground floor over a lean-to addition on the northwest side. The gable end displays segmental-headed three-light casements on both the ground and first floors, along with two floor bands. The southeast side has exposed framing and a weatherboarded addition at the southwest end. A central chimney stack is topped with joined square shafts.
Local climate
Cunliffe Cottages 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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