Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-alcove-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Keepers Cottage, Felsted, CM3 1JY
- OS grid reference
- TL 687 178
- Coordinates
- 51.83336, 0.44769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keepers Cottage is a 17th-century or earlier cottage situated in Hartford End, Felsted. It is a single-story building with an attic, featuring four catslide dormers. The roof is half-hipped and covered with red plain tiles. The cottage has a timber frame, with plaster and pebble-dashed walls. There is a range of small-paned vertical sliding sash windows, and a plain board door topped with a small pediment and brackets. A central chimney stack is constructed of red brick.
Local climate
Keepers 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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