Gardeners Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. House.

Gardeners Cottage

WRENN ID
lost-cinder-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1980
Type
House
Address
Gardeners Cottage, Henham Road, Elsenham
OS grid reference
TL 541 264
Coordinates
51.91545, 0.23991
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gardeners Cottage is a 16th to 17th century house that is timber-framed and plastered, with some sections featuring weather-boarding. The building has two storeys and is fitted with casement windows. The roof is tiled and has half-hipped ends at both the east and west sides. There is a 20th century addition that projects from the front, which has a weather-boarded exterior and a catslide roof above.

Local climate

Gardeners 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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