Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- young-wall-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Cottage, Little Bardfield, CM7 4PU
- OS grid reference
- TL 663 283
- Coordinates
- 51.92839, 0.41748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier, with subsequent alterations and additions. It is timber-framed with plastered walls and has a thatched roof, hipped on the right side. Red brick chimney stacks are located to the left and off-centre to the right. The cottage is one storey high with attics, and includes one gabled dormer window. It has a four-window front with leaded casement windows. A 20th-century enclosed gabled porch now fronts the cottage, together with a 20th-century vertically boarded door. Inside, a restored inglenook fireplace is present, along with stop-chamfered bridging joists with run-out stops.
Local climate
Old 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- 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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