Bays Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Bays Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-hearth-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bays Cottage, High Street, Henham, CM22 6AR
- OS grid reference
- TL 550 285
- Coordinates
- 51.93395, 0.25359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bays Cottage is a building originally comprising a range of 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered cottages, which has since been converted into a single tenement. The structure is one storey high with attics. It features casement windows with glazing bars and a thatched roof that is half-hipped at the east end. The roof includes five dormer windows and two central chimney stacks.
Local climate
Bays 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1996
- 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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