The Cottage (1/4 Miles West North West of Hylands House) is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1981. Cottage.
The Cottage (1/4 Miles West North West of Hylands House)
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-pedestal-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage (1/4 Miles West North West of Hylands House), Hylands Park, Writtle
- OS grid reference
- TL 681 043
- Coordinates
- 51.71261, 0.43282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is an early 19th century cottage ornee, built between 1814 and 1840, possibly designed by Repton. It is two storeys high and features a double front with three windows. The hipped tiled roof has a central 'Tudor' stack that includes three diagonal shafts made of gault brick. The exterior is constructed from flint rubble and has 'Rustic' timber corner posts. There are semi-dormer windows with flat roofs and segmental arched heads, along with a boarded door. At the rear, there is a late 19th century lean-to made of red brick with a slate roof.
Local climate
The Cottage (1/4 Miles West North West of Hylands House) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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