Bretts Cottage Adjoining White Roding Pottery and Opposite the Whalebone is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1983. Cottage.
Bretts Cottage Adjoining White Roding Pottery and Opposite the Whalebone
- WRENN ID
- dim-quartz-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- TL 563 135
- Coordinates
- 51.79901, 0.26628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bretts Cottage, located next to White Roding Pottery and opposite The Whalebone, is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier, featuring a rear extension. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a half hipped roof covered in red plain tiles. It has one storey and an attic, which includes three catslide dormers. The cottage is fitted with three ranges of 19th-century casement windows. A gabled porch with wooden supports, also covered in red tiles, adds to its charm.
Local climate
Bretts Cottage Adjoining White Roding Pottery and Opposite the Whalebone 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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