Cape Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1980. Cottage.
Cape Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-moulding-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cape Cottage, 5, Beaumont Hill, Great Dunmow
- OS grid reference
- TL 625 228
- Coordinates
- 51.8806, 0.36021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cape Cottage is a pair of cottages dating from the 18th century. They are timber framed and plastered, topped with a half-hipped thatched roof. The front roof slope features two eyebrow dormers and a central ridge line stack, with two small stacks at the ends, also with half hips. Each cottage has two 19th-century casement windows with two lights and small panes, along with a simple entrance door. There are fragments of old pargetting visible on Cape Cottage.
Local climate
Cape 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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