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

Lantern Cottage

WRENN ID
gaunt-spandrel-sedge
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
Lantern Cottage, 16, the Street, Manuden, CM23 1DQ
OS grid reference
TL 491 266
Coordinates
51.91802, 0.16698
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lantern Cottage is a 18th century timber-framed and plastered house located on the east side of The Street in Manuden. The building has two storeys and features a two-window range with small casement windows that have lattice leaded lights on the ground floor. A central gabled porch projects from the front of the house. The roof is thatched and half hipped at both the north and south ends, topped with a small central chimney stack.

Local climate

Lantern 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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