Virginia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Virginia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-spindle-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Virginia Cottage, Dunmow Road, Takeley, CM22 6SA
- OS grid reference
- TL 559 212
- Coordinates
- 51.86778, 0.26414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia Cottage is a 17th century house that is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a thatched roof. It has one storey and attics, featuring a four-window range with modern casements and one gabled dormer. A 17th century red brick chimney stack is present. At the north end, there is a modern extension with a red plain tile roof, also one storey and attics, which includes a two-window range and two gabled dormers. A garage is located at the north end. Inside, the original frame is intact, and there is a large 17th century fireplace with a mantel beam.
Local climate
Virginia Cottage 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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