Rayleigh Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Rayleigh Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-gable-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rayleigh Cottage, Takeley Street, CM22 6QS
- OS grid reference
- TL 543 212
- Coordinates
- 51.86888, 0.24066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rayleigh Cottage is a late 14th century or early 15th century open hall house with floored end bays. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a thatched half-hipped roof. The building is one storey high with attics and has five windows, which are modern casements, along with a central modern bow window and one dormer. A mid-16th century red brick chimney stack is present, as well as a 16th-century inserted floor in the original hall. Inside, there is a large 16th-century fireplace with a mantel beam. A modern extension has been added at the rear.
Local climate
Rayleigh 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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