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. 7 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- floating-rubble-onyx
- 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, Green Lane, AL10 9BH
- OS grid reference
- TL 218 107
- Coordinates
- 51.782, -0.23477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house from the late 17th century, built with a timber frame and weatherboarded exterior. It features a plain tile roof with an internal stack at the north gable end. The building has one storey and a single gable attic dormer. The north gable displays exposed half timber and brick nogging. The windows are glazing bar casements, and there is a central half-glazed door with a glazing bar fan above it. Inside, you will find a chamfered floor beam and fireplace lintel, along with a central early 19th-century staircase. Additionally, there is an external bread oven attached to the fireplace on the rear elevation.
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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