A Thatched Cottage 20 Metres East of Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. Cottage.
A Thatched Cottage 20 Metres East of Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-threshold-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- TL 655 264
- Coordinates
- 51.91177, 0.40475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a thatched cottage located 20 meters east of Forge Cottage, dating from the 17th century or earlier. The cottage is timber framed and weatherboarded, featuring a thatched roof with a flat dormer. To the left of the cottage, there is an outshot over a plain board door, and the roof is half-hipped to the right. It has three 19th-century casement windows and a central board door with a square light. There is one off-center red brick chimney stack and another external chimney stack.
Local climate
A Thatched Cottage 20 Metres East of Forge 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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 0.3°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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