Muscombes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Muscombes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-porch-mallow
- 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
- Muscombes Cottage, 10 and 12, Northaw Road West, Northaw and Cuffley, EN6 4NR
- OS grid reference
- TL 278 022
- Coordinates
- 51.70433, -0.15049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Muscombes Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage, potentially with an earlier core. It was originally a pair of cottages. The exterior is painted brick, topped by a steep-pitched roof covered in plain tiles, with two gabled dormers. The ground floor features three cast iron casement windows with pointed Gothic lights set within wooden mullioned frames, each with a cambered lintel. A similar window is present where the former doorway was located on the left centre of the building.
Local climate
Muscombes 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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