Hope Cottage and North Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Pair of houses. 7 related planning applications.
Hope Cottage and North Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stony-steel-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- Hope Cottage and North Cottage, Cage End, Hatfield Broad Oak, CM22 7HL
- OS grid reference
- TL 545 164
- Coordinates
- 51.82559, 0.24174
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hope Cottage and North Cottage form a pair of houses, originally a single dwelling, dating back to the 15th century or earlier. The construction is timber-framed and plastered, though the east end has white-painted weatherboarding. The roofs are gabled and covered in peg tiles. The western part, now Hope Cottage, features a crosswing with decorative finialed bargeboards and a gabled porch hood. A date plaque with the initials "W.P." and "1873" is located high on the wall. This section includes one double-hung sash window with small panes on each floor. North Cottage has a two-light 19th-century casement window with cross pattern glazing bars above a similar three-light casement, and a front door. A large, square red brick chimney stack rises from the ridge line between the two units. Inside North Cottage are moulded bridging joists with two ogees and a flat chamfer.
Local climate
Hope Cottage and North 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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