Watch House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Watch House Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-balcony-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Watch House Cottage, Felsted
- OS grid reference
- TL 694 208
- Coordinates
- 51.86037, 0.45931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Watch House Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 16th century. It has one storey and an attic, topped with a plain red tiled roof featuring three gabled dormers. The structure is timber framed, with sections that are plastered and others that are weatherboarded. There is a three-window range of diamond leaded casements and an off-centre boarded door that is sheltered by a flat canopy supported by brackets. The cottage has two square red brick chimney stacks and an outshot at the rear. Inside, it features a crown post roof, original fireplaces, and heavily timbered construction.
Local climate
Watch House 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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