The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1983. House.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-flue-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, Hammonds Road, Hatfield Broad Oak
- OS grid reference
- TL 551 165
- Coordinates
- 51.82615, 0.24934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a house dating from the 17th to 18th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and has a thatched roof that is hipped and partially gabled, along with black weatherboarding on the east end. The building is designed in an 'L' plan form and includes 20th-century extensions on the west side. It has two ridge line stacks and four gabled dormers on the front, as well as 20th-century leaded light casements.
Local climate
The 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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