Tan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. Cottage.
Tan Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-cloister-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tan Cottage, 1, Mill Lane, Stebbing
- OS grid reference
- TL 660 242
- Coordinates
- 51.89169, 0.41228
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tan Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th or 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior. The roof is covered with red plain tiles and features an outshot on the right side. The building has two storeys and includes a single range of 19th-century small paned casement windows, along with a small window in the outshot. To the left, there is a plain board door that is topped with a slanting canopy supported by brackets. A red brick chimney stack is located on the right side of the cottage.
Local climate
Tan 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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