Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. House.
Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-alcove-bistre
- 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
- Garden Cottage, Wild Hill
- OS grid reference
- TL 265 068
- Coordinates
- 51.74603, -0.16807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottage is a house that likely dates from the 17th century and is timber framed with a roughcast exterior. It features a low pitched plain tile roof and stands two storeys tall. The building has three windows, which include a slightly projecting gabled cross wing on the left-hand side. The first floor is fitted with 6/6-pane Yorkshire sliding casements, while the ground floor has recessed 19th-century sashes. A large square ridge chimney stack is located near the cross wing, and there is a porch that dates from the 19th or 20th century.
Local climate
Garden 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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