Church Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. A 17th century Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Church Cottages
- WRENN ID
- wild-screen-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- 17th century
- Address
- Church Cottages, 1-7, Church Street, Essendon, AL9 6AS
- OS grid reference
- TL 273 087
- Coordinates
- 51.76317, -0.15535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cottages, numbered 1 to 7, are located on the east side of Church Street, Essendon, and likely originated as almshouses. They were probably built in the 17th century and restored around 1959. The building is timber-framed with roughcast rendering. The roofs are steeply pitched and covered in plain tiles, with square chimney stacks of red brick, dating to the 17th and 18th centuries. The cottages are arranged in a U-shaped plan, forming a courtyard on the east side. The west elevation has seven windows, with modern glazing bar casements. The south elevation features a single 17th-century red brick square chimney stack on the left side and a plastered stack of similar date near the right side. The doors are fitted with modern pediment hoods.
Local climate
Church Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1996
- 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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