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

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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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