Virginia 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.
Virginia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-outpost-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Virginia Cottage, Stebbing Road, Felsted, CM6 3LL
- OS grid reference
- TL 676 212
- Coordinates
- 51.86473, 0.4328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th or 18th century, or possibly earlier. It is a two-storey building with a double-roofed range covered in red tiles and slate. The construction is timber-framed and plastered, with a modern extension featuring a flat roof on the left side. It has two small casement windows with multiple panes and a 20th-century door leading to the extension. A central brick chimney stack made of red brick is present. The front garden is enclosed by hoop iron railings.
Local climate
Virginia 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 — 10 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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