Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1983. A C16 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-corbel-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gatehouse, Chelmsford Road, White Roothing, CM6 1RF
- OS grid reference
- TL 572 134
- Coordinates
- 51.79785, 0.27855
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatehouse is a cottage dating from the mid-16th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a roughcast rendered exterior. The building is one storey high with an attic. It features 20th-century three-range casement windows and a gabled dormer. The roof is covered with concrete tiles, and there is a 20th-century door. An off-centre red brick chimney stack is present. Inside, the original floor joists are exposed. The gatehouse is situated on a moated site.
Local climate
Gatehouse 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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
- 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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