Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. A C17-C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Well Cottage
- WRENN ID
- final-mantel-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Well Cottage, Rickling Green, Quendon and Rickling, CB11 3YG
- OS grid reference
- TL 509 299
- Coordinates
- 51.94742, 0.19459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered house dating from the 17th to 18th centuries, renovated in the 20th century. It is a single storey with attics. The windows are casement windows with lattice leaded lights. The roof is thatched, half-hipped at the east end, with a central chimney stack and one dormer window. A modern wing, built in an older style, extends to the north.
Local climate
Well 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- 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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