Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-spindle-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Keepers Cottage, Littlebury, CB11 4XG
- OS grid reference
- TL 493 393
- Coordinates
- 52.0326, 0.17535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keepers Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 16th century. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring gabled roofs covered with peg tiles. The building has an L-shaped plan and stands two storeys high. The windows are 20th century casements with small panes. There is a large stack on the ridge line of the larger original block and a smaller stack on the north gable. A lean-to extension is present on the north face of the main block. The cottage has three bays, with the entire upper floor being one original open chamber. The floor joists and girts are moulded, although the moulding is only on one face of the joists. A short block to the north is from the 18th or 19th century and was probably not originally a dwelling.
Local climate
Keepers 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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 0.4°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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