Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1979. A C17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-entrance-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Leaden Roding, CM6 1WG
- OS grid reference
- TL 600 134
- Coordinates
- 51.79663, 0.31904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a thatched cottage dating from around 1600, with extensions added in the 18th century and 20th century. The original timber frame is now plastered, and the roof is thatched. Originally a three-bay cottage with a chimney stack at the west end of the middle bay, it was later extended to the west by one bay and divided at the stack to create two cottages. A single-storey extension was added to the northeast around 1974. The south elevation has four 20th-century casement windows and two more in eyebrow dormers. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. Internally, some of the timber framing is exposed, displaying features such as curved tension bracing trenched to the inside of studs, jowled storey posts, and a cambered tiebeam in the original section. The later extension has primary straight bracing. Graffiti on the chimney stack, dated 1781, is visible. A bread oven from the 18th century is located to the north of the stack.
Local climate
Thatched 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 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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