Diamond Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Diamond Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-cloister-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Diamond Cottage, Broadway, Great Dunmow, CM6 3BQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 636 235
- Coordinates
- 51.88648, 0.37631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Diamond Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is timber-framed with plaster infill and has a thatched roof. The house is two storeys high with a four-window front. The windows are 18th-century horizontal sliding sashes, supplemented by 20th-century casements. The first floor front features two diamond-shaped windows with geometric glazing bars. A 20th-century gabled porch has been added. The original central chimney stack is made of red brick.
Local climate
Diamond 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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