Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1984. Cottage.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- woven-jade-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Cottage, Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, CM6 1DG
- OS grid reference
- TL 623 219
- Coordinates
- 51.87281, 0.35697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a thatched roof that is hipped at the south end and half hipped on the north end facing the road. The building has two storeys and features 20th-century leaded light casements. There is a flat-roofed 20th-century extension on the south and west sides, along with a small, central ridge line stack.
Inside, the cottage likely has a small open hall, characterized by an arch-braced storey post without jowls and heavy 'V' struts that support the side purlin roof. The structure includes hide spaced large studs, though these are interrupted by straight bracing. The south end of the cottage retains what is likely the original floor. There are slight traces of a former timber chimney stack that was removed in the 1970s.
Local climate
Oak 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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