The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- lost-garret-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old House, Little Chesterford, CB10 1TS
- OS grid reference
- TL 517 418
- Coordinates
- 52.05404, 0.21115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is a 17th-18th century timber-framed and plastered house that has been renovated. It is two storeys with attics, and includes a single-storeyed addition at the east end. The front facade has two casement windows. The main roof is tiled, featuring a moulded wooden eaves cornice and a central square chimney stack. The roof of the east addition is pantiled. A lozenge-shaped panel displaying the date 1703 is set into the front of the building.
Local climate
The Old House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 5 transactions since 1998
- 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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