Blackhorse Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. Cottage.
Blackhorse Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-niche-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Blackhorse Cottage, Felsted
- OS grid reference
- TL 683 187
- Coordinates
- 51.8421, 0.44246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blackhorse Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 15th century or earlier, with an extension added to the rear. It has one storey and an attic, featuring a thatched roof with a gabled dormer. The cottage is timber framed and plastered, with three square leaded windows. There is a 20th-century door set in a 20th-century thatched and glazed porch. A central red brick chimney stack is present, and the roof timbers show signs of sooting. The construction includes halved and bridled scarf joints.
Local climate
Blackhorse 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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