Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. House.

Holly Cottage

WRENN ID
hidden-steeple-hemlock
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
Holly Cottage, Chantry Lane
OS grid reference
TL 217 078
Coordinates
51.75586, -0.23761
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holly Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid-18th century. It features a chequered red brick front and a plain tile roof with end stacks, while the gable ends are roughcast. The building has two storeys and includes a floor band with a burnt header centre course, as well as brick dentil eaves. The windows are 19th-century glazing bar casements, with the ground floor windows having segmental heads; the left-hand window has a pegged oak frame. A porch was added around 1970. Inside, there are chamfered floor beams that may predate the front of the house.

Local climate

Holly 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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