Brown's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Brown's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-rafter-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brown's Cottage, Chelmsford Road, Leaden Roding, CM6 1QH
- OS grid reference
- TL 594 132
- Coordinates
- 51.79542, 0.31116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brown's Cottage is a late 17th-century lobby-entrance house that has been extended in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with a thatched roof. The building consists of three bays aligned east-west and has an axial chimney stack at the west end of the middle bay, which creates the lobby entrance. At the west end, there are two single-storey extensions: one is a lean-to and the other has a flat roof, both dating from the 20th century.
On the south elevation, there is a 20th-century bay window with a tiled hipped roof and imitation diamond glazing, along with a plain door that has a tiled hipped porch, also from the 20th century. The original tiled gabled dormer includes a 20th-century casement window. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. Inside, some timber framing is exposed, showcasing primary straight bracing, unjowled wall posts, straight tie beams, and all construction is pegged.
Local climate
Brown's Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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