Hitchin Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1977. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Hitchin Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hitchin Cottage, 19, Bridge Road, Ickford, HP18 9HU
- OS grid reference
- SP 650 071
- Coordinates
- 51.75901, -1.05904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hitchin Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Bridge Road in Ickford. It is timber-framed with some plastered and painted brick infill. The south gable has colourwashed brickwork, and the entire roof is thatched. The cottage is three bays wide and has one-and-a-half storeys. The east elevation features a centrally positioned door and two ground-floor, two-light casement windows, one in the right-hand bay. There are three two-light eaves dormers. To the right is a single-storey wing with a hipped roof covered in old tiles. The west elevation has irregularly placed casement windows. A south-gable stack is present, and another is situated between the right-hand bays.
Local climate
Hitchin Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- 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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