Little Becketts is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. House. 2 related planning applications.
Little Becketts
- WRENN ID
- under-corridor-ochre
- 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
- Little Becketts, Hampit Road, Arkesden, CB11 4HG
- OS grid reference
- TL 473 355
- Coordinates
- 51.99914, 0.14498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Becketts is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house that was renovated in the 20th century. It has two storeys and features casement windows. On the east front, the upper storey includes an original small oriel window with two lights that have old leaded casements. The roof is tiled, with the north end at a lower level and featuring one gabled dormer. The southern part of the house has a half-hipped roof at the south end, along with an external chimney stack and a central stack.
Local climate
Little Becketts sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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