Thakes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Thakes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-latch-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thakes Cottage, Radwinter End, CB10 2UD
- OS grid reference
- TL 615 392
- Coordinates
- 52.02841, 0.35379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thakes Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed building located in Radwinter End, Radwinter. It was renovated and now features modern pargetted panels displaying traditional designs. The cottage is one storey high with attics. It has small casement windows and a thatched roof, which is half-hipped at the north and south ends. The roof also includes two modern dormers and an old central chimney stack.
Local climate
Thakes Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- 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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