Dyke Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hillingdon local planning authority area, England. House.
Dyke Cottage
- WRENN ID
- riven-render-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hillingdon
- Constituency
- Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner MP: David Simmonds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dyke Cottage, 1 and 2, Rickmansworth Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 086 913
- Coordinates
- 51.61042, -0.43273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dyke Cottage, located on Rickmansworth Road in Northwood, is an 18th-century symmetrical house that has been divided into two dwellings. The building is two storeys high, featuring two windows on the first floor and four openings on the ground floor. It is constructed from red brick and has a hipped, swept tiled roof with a central chimney. The first floor has horizontal sliding sash windows with small panes, while the ground floor includes three plain casement windows set under cambered arches, along with a door leading to No 2. Lean-to extensions are set back on both sides, and No 1 has its entrance located in the lean-to.
Local climate
Dyke 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1996
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- 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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