Mount Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. House. 5 related planning applications.
Mount Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-glass-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mount Cottage, South Street, Great Chesterford, CB10 1NW
- OS grid reference
- TL 508 427
- Coordinates
- 52.06287, 0.1985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mount Cottage is a 19th-century, three-storey timber-framed house with plastered walls. It has central gables facing north and south, and gables also on the east and west sides. The east, west, and south sides each feature a single window range with casement windows. A circular plaque in the east gable displays the name "Mount Cottage" and the date 1871. The roof is slate, with decorative bargeboards to the gables, ornamental crest tiles, and a central chimney stack with a brick base and cornice featuring dentils.
Local climate
Mount Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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