Spade Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1983. House. 2 related planning applications.
Spade Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-postern-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Spade Cottage, Duck Street, Little Easton, CM6 2JG
- OS grid reference
- TL 606 244
- Coordinates
- 51.89524, 0.33279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spade Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and features a three-window range with 17th-century leaded casements. A gabled porch with a red plain tile roof is present at the front. The original red brick end wall chimney stacks have been partly restored. At the rear, there is a lean-to. Some original chevron pargetting can also be seen on the exterior.
Local climate
Spade 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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