The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-loft-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Chipping Barnet MP: Dan Tomlinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Hadley Green Road, EN5 5PR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 246 970
- Coordinates
- 51.65867, -0.19995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a building located on Hadley Green Road in Monken Hadley. It features an 18th-century front that is likely part of a 17th-century structure, which continues as part of Hadley Cote. The exterior is rendered and the building stands two storeys high with four windows that have sashes and glazing bars. There is a panelled door with a plain doorcase. The roof is tiled and has a large brick central stack.
Local climate
The Old 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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