The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-bastion-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, the Street, Little Dunmow
- OS grid reference
- TL 656 215
- Coordinates
- 51.86783, 0.40408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a cottage dating from the 18th century or earlier. It is a two-storey building with single-storey extensions on both the right and left sides. The structure is timber framed and weather boarded, featuring pantiles on the main roof and red plain tiles on the roofs of the single-storey sections. It has four range casement windows, some of which are from the 19th century. There are two red brick chimney stacks on the two-storey part of the building, and a central door from the 20th century with a light above it.
Local climate
The 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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