The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1975. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-beam-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, School Lane, High Easter
- OS grid reference
- TL 620 148
- Coordinates
- 51.80839, 0.34883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that features a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a half-hipped thatched roof and a pantiled rear lean-to extension. The east end elevation is mostly covered in white weatherboarding. The building has one storey and attics, positioned at right angles to the street. It has an off-centre rectangular ridge line stack. The windows are 19th and 20th-century two-light casements, each with a single horizontal glazing bar. Inside, there is later but complete timber framing made from hedgerow timbers and a double-sided inglenook that includes remnants of a bread oven.
Local climate
The 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 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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