St Francis Cottage St Mary's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1983. A C19 Cottage.

St Francis Cottage St Mary's Cottage

WRENN ID
roaming-passage-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Barnet
Constituency
Hendon MP: David Pinto-Duschinsky (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 April 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
St Francis Cottage St Mary's Cottage, the Ridgeway Nw7
OS grid reference
TQ 221 931
Coordinates
51.6242, -0.23656
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Francis Cottage and St Mary's Cottage are early 19th-century weatherboarded cottages located on the southwest side of The Ridgeway. Each cottage is two storeys high and features two windows with sashes that have glazing bars. They both have a central panelled door. St Francis Cottage is distinguished by its canted bays that are situated under a continuous roof on the ground floor.

Local climate

St Francis Cottage St Mary's Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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