Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. Cottage.
Willow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-flue-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Willow Cottage, Pound Hill, Little Dunmow
- OS grid reference
- TL 659 213
- Coordinates
- 51.86638, 0.40898
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has undergone later additions and alterations. It features a timber frame with brick noggin infill and has a thatched roof that is hipped to the left, complete with two flat-headed dormers. The cottage is one storey with an attic and includes a 20th-century enclosed porch with a red tiled roof on the right side. There are two diamond leaded casement windows, and a central red brick chimney stack that retains its original structure. Additionally, there is an extension at the rear.
Local climate
Willow 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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