Marks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1984. Small house.
Marks Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-stone-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1984
- Type
- Small house
- Address
- Marks Cottage, Great Dunmow
- OS grid reference
- TL 633 238
- Coordinates
- 51.88918, 0.37214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marks Cottage is a small house dating from the late 16th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a 20th-century red clay plain tile roof. The building has one storey and attics, featuring a three-window range of 20th-century casements and two gabled dormers. Inside, the timber frame is exposed, showcasing halved and bladed top plate scarfs, as well as soffit tenons with diminished haunches to the floor joists.
Local climate
Marks 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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