Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1982. Cottage.
Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-crypt-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Cottage, Church Lane, Debden
- OS grid reference
- TL 553 332
- Coordinates
- 51.97634, 0.26025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Cottage is a two-storey building dating from around 1800, originally built as a pair of estate workers' cottages. It has a timber frame that is plastered and partially pargetted, featuring a central brick chimney and a gabled roof covered with plain tiles. The cottage has a central painted timber porch with a hipped roof made of slate, which includes elliptical arches and sunk spandrels, leading to the original pair of doors, although one door is now blocked. On the first floor, there is a symmetrically arranged pair of original leaded light casement windows, and on the ground floor, there is another pair of casements with timber 'gothick' painted heads.
Local climate
Old Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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