Musbrook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Musbrook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-copper-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Musbrook Cottage, Cage End, Hatfield Broad Oak, CM22 7HN
- OS grid reference
- TL 546 164
- Coordinates
- 51.82509, 0.24194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of cottages located in Hatfield Broad Oak, dating to the late 16th century, with subsequent alterations in the 17th and early 19th centuries. The cottages are timber framed and plastered. Musbrook Cottage is a two-storey building with a gabled pegtile roof, featuring a stack positioned between the two properties. The first floor has two double-hung sash windows with small panes above, and a central door protected by a flat hood. No. 14 is a single-storey building with attic space, also with a gabled pegtile roof and a single gabled dormer on the front slope. It has a central door approached by a flight of steps, and a 20th-century metal casement window with small panes on either side. Originally both units were single-storey, with Musbrook Cottage raised to two storeys in the early 19th century. No. 14 retains some original features, including heavy stop-chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops, and jowled posts dating to the late 16th century.
Local climate
Musbrook 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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