Manor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1977. Cottage.

Manor Cottage

WRENN ID
late-cellar-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 May 1977
Type
Cottage
Address
Manor Cottage, Thaxted Road, Little Bardfield
OS grid reference
TL 652 304
Coordinates
51.9483, 0.40276
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Thaxted Road in Little Bardfield. The building features a 20th-century gabled and jettied left crossing. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with red plain tiled roofs that extend to the rear of the main right range and are hipped at the gable apex. There are two red brick chimney stacks, with one on the left featuring a 20th-century concertina shaft, and the other is square and off-center to the main range. The cottage is two storeys high and has a window arrangement of one window to the left and two to the right, consisting of leaded vari-light casements with labels above. Some of the windows are from the 17th century and include ironmongery. There is a 20th-century oriel window on the first floor to the left. The entrance features a 20th-century plank and muntin door with a segmental pointed head and carved spandrels surrounding it. Inside, there is through bracing in some of the internal walls and two brick floors.

Local climate

Manor 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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 0.3°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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