Fox Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Cottage.
Fox Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-paling-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fox Cottage, Hatfield Broad Oak
- OS grid reference
- TL 550 169
- Coordinates
- 51.82948, 0.2483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fox Cottage is a cottage that was formerly a public house, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior. The roof is thatched, featuring half hips at both ends and a gable end stack at the east end. At the rear, there is a thatched continuous lean-to, along with a black weatherboarded lean-to extension on the east end.
The south front of the cottage has three 2-light 19th-century casement windows with small panes, positioned above two similar windows and an off-centre door that has a flat hood supported by brackets. The roadside end elevation includes a square bay window with small panes. Additionally, there is a large bread oven located in the rear lean-to.
Local climate
Fox 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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