Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Thatched Cottage

WRENN ID
half-moulding-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Thatched Cottage, Walden Road, Littlebury, CB11 4TA
OS grid reference
TL 517 396
Coordinates
52.03481, 0.211
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thatched Cottage is an 18th-century building located on the north side of Walden Road in Littlebury. It is timber-framed and plastered, standing two storeys tall. The cottage features small casement windows and a thatched roof that is hipped at the west end, complete with a central chimney stack. Notably, the thatch extends down to the ground storey ceiling level at both the east and west ends of the front.

Local climate

Thatched Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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 0.4°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 — 2 transactions since 1995
  • 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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