Cottage at Junction with Beaumont Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1984. Cottage.

Cottage at Junction with Beaumont Hill

WRENN ID
gilded-bracket-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Cottage at Junction with Beaumont Hill, 4, Parsonage Downs, Great Dunmow
OS grid reference
TL 624 229
Coordinates
51.88121, 0.3594
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a cottage located at the junction with Beaumont Hill in Great Dunmow, dating from the 18th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof that is hipped to the west. The cottage has one storey and features a three-window range with original and 20th-century leaded casements, along with 20th-century shutters. Above the door, there is a simple pediment supported by brackets. The original red brick chimney stack adds to its character.

Local climate

Cottage at Junction with Beaumont Hill 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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