Ayot Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House. 8 related planning applications.
Ayot Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-truss-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ayot Cottage, Bride Hall Lane, Ayot St. Lawrence, AL6 9BT
- OS grid reference
- TL 195 168
- Coordinates
- 51.83743, -0.26555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ayot Cottage is a house dating to the 17th century, originally timber-framed. It has a roughcast exterior and an old tile roof. The house is two storeys high with attics, and features mid-to-late 19th century two-light casement windows, along with two small casement gabled dormers. A projecting, gabled two-storey porch is present. The west side includes a three-window rear projection, with a first-floor sash window with six panes of glass.
Local climate
Ayot 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- 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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