The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. A Medieval Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hidden-quoin-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Cottage, the Causeway, Ulting
- OS grid reference
- TL 804 087
- Coordinates
- 51.74833, 0.61269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a cottage that dates back to the 15th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed with a timber frame and is weatherboarded. The roof is covered with red plain tiles and features an outshot at the front. There is a central red brick chimney stack. The building has one storey and attics, and it includes three 20th-century casement windows. The central entrance has a five-panelled door and a 20th-century porch. Inside, some heavy timber framing is visible, along with stop-chamfered bridging joists.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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