Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. A C18 Cottage.

Keepers Cottage

WRENN ID
turning-dormer-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Keepers Cottage, Stevington End, Ashdon
OS grid reference
TL 596 428
Coordinates
52.06089, 0.32783
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keepers Cottage is an 18th century timber-framed and plastered cottage that has been renovated in the 20th century. It is one storey high with attics and features 20th century casement windows. A gabled porch projects from the front of the cottage, and the roof is thatched, with two dormers.

Local climate

Keepers Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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